Word: begining
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...definite announcement that work on the Biological Institute will begin within two months recalls that other portion or the University's building campaign which has almost been forgotten as the House Plan has usurped the attention of architects. The Department of Biology, like its sister Department of Chemistry before the erection of Mallinckrodt, has been too long housed under antiquated, inspiration-deadening conditions. The University at which Louis Agassiz taught in the years when he stood foremost among American biologists, has seen its influence in that field waning, principally from the lack of proper equipment. No science can be content...
...rather than a large amount. The Fund never asks for a definite sum and from members of the Senior Class and from Classes recently graduated from College it expects only the most nominal gifts from a dollar up. The main thing is that a man should give something and begin now a habit in which he will take increasing pride as the years...
Sportsman. Another new train, the Chesapeake & Ohio's Sportsman connecting Great Lakes points with the southerly Atlantic coast last week started from Detroit on an exhibition tour. It visited Toledo, Fostoria, Marion, Columbus, Ohio, Huntington, W. Va., Charleston, S. C., Richmond, Norfolk. Regular service was scheduled to begin March...
Puppy-seals learn to swim when they are a month or six weeks old; if they tumble into the water earlier they drown. Like all Pribilof seals, they take part in the winter excursion, leaving with their mothers in November. Female pups begin to bear young in three years. With the exception of the Indians' yearly toll only the adolescent "bachelor" seals are now allowed to be killed for their...
...vehicle of the World Teacher (i.e. the divine spirit at times appropriates his physical organism, speaks through him as it spoke through Jesus, Mohammed, etc.). Once an avid tennis-player and tea-drinker at Oxford and on the Riviera, he arrived last week in Krotona to begin new vigils and meditations. The Besant Society believes that children born on the Pacific Coast, Canada and Australia (or other fresh, unexhausted lands) are creatures of a new, sixth race, capable of seeing ethereal spirits, possessed of clairvoyance. All other people living are said to derive from the fifth, or Arian root race...