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...aunt saw to it that, at 13, Marian was moved along into the adult choir. After her father's death, her mother took a job as cleaning woman in a department store. At 16 Marian took over the support of the family, sang at community affairs, made what she calls her formal debut in a concert at a Negro school in Atlanta. Her church friends helped finance her study, felt richly rewarded when, in 1925, she was chosen from 300 applicants to solo with the New York Philharmonic at a Stadium Concert...
Goliath and Roland were Southern Sea Elephants or Elephant Seals (Mirunga patagonica), an immensely overgrown genus of seal whose adult males grow a short, useless proboscis. They breed on lonely southern islands, the Falklands off South America, Kerguelen off the Cape of Good Hope, the Macquaries off Australia, commute to the Antarctic ice pack. On the breeding beaches they flip sand on their backs and sleep, not to be disturbed even by man. Lazy and languid bulls fight with none of the ferocity of smaller seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece...
...parish, was small, middleaged, energetic, untidy, conservative in belief, liberal in practice. He smoked too many cigarets, was always late because he tried to do too much. Celibate by inclination and experience, he had a poor stomach but liked a good glass of wine. He was no Buchmanite. "What adult could accept as real and true that fairy-tale world in which their Dutch baronesses, Master of Fox Hounds and formerly intemperate butlers all walked laughing and prattling, the children of light, and the children of the day?" He had dozens of friends, who took up too much...
...made life unbearable to one of its most distinguished men through a sheer inability to protect him from its criminals and lunatics and the vast vulgarity of its sensationalists? ... It seems as incredible as it is shocking. . . . The Lindberghs can live with some freedom in England . . . because of the adult public sense of good taste, restraint and respect for individual right and privacies which underlies the British freedom from crime...
Thus whether we look at the forest or at the trees, adult education looks highly desirable and highly workable. Columbia's example should allay the qualms of the skeptics who don't like experiments. Harvard needs only a little urging and a final push to do for Massachusetts what Columbia has done for New York...