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Last week the London Evening Stand ard commented on the French reduction of visa fees : "France has so many advantages over Britain for the attraction of Americans that we can ill afford to put any obstacles in the way of the potential visitor. There is a tendency on this side of the Channel to imagine that all American travelers are so rich that a few extra dollars in the way of fees will not weigh one way or another. That is quite wrong...
Evergreens are posted here and there to stimulate the quiet and charm of a New Hampshire hillside; and on the morning after, the casual visitor is greeted by a scene not unlike that of the familiar New England cut-over slashing. Some meagre punster who professes to se humor in all things, might call t a hang-over slashing, but not many will give him the consideration of a fleeting attention...
...state that it would be returned to the British Museum. Britishers were happy, yet marvelled at the absence of U. S. moneybags. Some surmised that U. S. financiers are not interested in damaged goods. In 1845 the Portland vase was shattered by one William Lloyd, a lunatic museum visitor, who was fined $15 for his impetuosity. It was skillfully repaired, but all connoisseurs know the story...
...Ware '30 and Short of Bowdoin provided the only fireworks of the afternoon, the visitor taking the second set, 7-9, but Ware came back to take the third set easily...
...investigation of compressibilities and thermal conductivities which are of considerable use to the geologist Professor F. I. Chaffee 11 has been measuring for several years the electrical response of the retina to light stimulation, a subject which has an important relation to our knowledge of the mechanism of visitor...