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Professor Kirtley F. Mather, director of the summer school, explained that the usual wide array of courses in education for teachers and the customary studies for undergraduates will be given, but the stress will be on graduate study and the adults "keeping up with the times...
Breeding Profitable Dairy Cattle is not a modest book; it was not written by a modest man. Backed by an imposing array of hard fact, cold logic and concrete results, it is intended to give conquering impetus to a great campaign. Its avowed purpose is nothing less than "to do for animal husbandry in the 20th Century as much as was done for crop farming in the 19th Century by the invention of agricultural machinery." It was written by a rich, disputatious, immensely learned old gentleman named E. (for Ezra) Parmelee Prentice, who is a son-in-law of John...
...spectator. A charming debutante of the Boston variety vainly trying to manipulate a fly red is the next big feature. After the attempt at fishing has gone on for half an hour with no success, the observer passes on further into the show. Here a varied array of tricycles, skis, nondescript sailboats, equipped with outboard motors, and 22 rifles tend to strengthen the impression of continuity...
...newspaper offices throughout the land excited groups of newsmen stood around an imposing array of switchboards, generators, motors, and lathe-like machines. Lights flashed on the switchboards -green, red, white. Needles swung on dials. Whistles shrilled from loudspeakers, then a voice...
...could even be said that in squash there were two systems-the Philadelphia system and the Boston system. It was a difference in play occasioned by the smaller courts on which the inhabitants of Quakertown were accustomed to play. Thus the Philadelphians developed a game that included a vast array of wall shots, while the sons of the bean and the cod were quite content to play to the front wall...