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...chemical department to the new building on Oxford Street. This location is the most desirable place in the Yard for a dining hall. It is easy of access from the Square, from the Yard and from the Massachusetts Avenue district. It is the heart of the Cambridge area occupied by Harvard. The property will be available for construction work during the coming summer...
Browning once wrote a poem concerning "a grammarian's funeral; a Browning is needed on the Burlington. An erudite Vice President inscribed a circular containing the words, " . . . a tremendous area in which "IS" produced two thirds of the oats and corn . . . ", and a meticulous traffic, manager neatly omitted the "IS" and inserted "ARE". The disputants consulted the University of Chicago, then Northwestern, then Harvard, Princeton and Yale. After the weighty decisions were received and considered, the matter was settled by the toss of a coin and IS was the result. Not even five great institutions of learning can convince...
...Area 95,400 square miles, more than the combined area of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire. Population 4,600.000 ; more than that of any state of the U. S. except New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois and Ohio...
...real Philippine problem is not political but economic. It ever the Filipinos are to be able to stand by themselves, they must develop their enormous potential wealth. Only about 12 per cent, of the area of the islands is under cultivation. Agricultural methods are very primitive. Little has been done to improve them. The soil and climate of the Islands, however, is as good as the best in the fabulously rich Indies. All manner of tropical products can be grown there--rubber, camphor, coffee, tea, cocoa, gutta-percha, cocoanuts. Of these we import each year enormous quantities, but only...
...progress deeply impressed upon me. I had but to regard the bleak wastes of snow and ice below me to visualize the unfortunate explorers of the past. Brave men had wasted their lives in crawling toward the Pole over the ice and snow and frozen drifts of this Arctic area which we were flying over in comfort at ten times their best speed! When I considered these explorers with their dogs and sleds and years of wasted effort, I felt almost guilty because of my own easy progress. I think we all felt somewhat solemn when we reached the region...