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Just before he sailed back to Britain, still closely guarded, Patrick said in a message to Irishmen: "Everyone who knows Irishmen likes them. They like a joke and are always ready for a bit of fun. Your attachment to the Throne is proverbial and I am delighted to have this opportunity of seeing it myself on your own soil...
...them in England half a century ago. Coming of age in 1889, he founded a zoological museum on his ancestral estate at Tring, Hertfordshire. No bait for birds, the Rothschild gold was lure enough to set men snaring them in the trees, brush, jungles, marshes of all the earth. Bit by bit the hauls of famed ornithologists and obscure amateurs found their way to Tring, gave it what many experts regard as the best all-round collection in the world.* Mammals, reptiles, insects have come too. From Tring issues sporadically the learned Novitates Zoologicae, and occasionally a story...
Before Prohibition the liquor industry won notoriety by its insidious publicity work; a recent bit of propaganda, presumably sent by brewers to the college publications where it would do the most good, states in part: "A prosperous brewing industry on a whole-some basis will do more for genuine temperance than any group of idealists or reformers over could do in a thousand years . . . Right now is the time to interest the college and school youth in the vital problems of the brewing industry . . . undergraduates, perverted and vitiated by the vicious booting liquor . . . Before prohibition, beer was regarded...
...President Lowell spoke as follows of the student and his goal in the House community: "He must perceive that mere absorption from his instructors counts for little; that to learn-and for that matter to graduate-is an active, not a passive verb," Here is a bit of writing that states a principle already well mastered by its author; his influence has since tended farther than such a mere statement of the case, and into the active forefront of its solution...
Perhaps it is only that Radcliffe has changed, though there are doubts on that score. Of course, the Vagabond wandered a bit confusedly through Gothic Yale Saturday, of course he drank cocktails with very smooth Elis, but, unexpectedly, he met Radcliffe after the game in a Harkness study. She was drying her shoes before the fire, and as she wriggled silken toes all was confessed. Not ships and sealing-wax were the topics of conversation, not the game, for Radcliffe felt very bad on that point (she had been there with a Yale man) but Harvard men themselves were dissected...