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...joint Collection and Distribution Committee composed of U. S. and Soviet Russian citizens was reported set up at Moscow. Its duties: 1) To collect 25,000 Russian Jews and distribute them advantageously about the new Republic as the nucleus of a future Zion. 2) To collect from U. S. Jews funds for distribution among their pioneer brethren of the new Republic...
...planned to collect funds, as the share of the citizens of German birth to devote its particular efforts toward endowing the Germanic Museum of Harvard, with representative examples of Germanic art. Not only have three important replaces of famous works of sculpture arrived at the museum but the committee will also deliver this Sunday a large check to the acting curator. Professor Horatio S. White for the purchase of an additional gift. Professor Kuno Francke, at present abroad, has been authorized to personally select the new addition...
Some of the characterizations can be described by no other word than "immense" in its slangiest sense. Andrew Jackson, rest his democratic soul, is an "old turkey cock, on a forest rock" and later on "his face was a talon, his hands were talons." You do not need to collect postage stamps to know that Andrew Jackson did look like that. Jezebel puts on her various guards and jewels and "stopped the honest prophets as they marched upon their...
...Europe. He obtained a post as taxidermist at the U. S. National Museum in Washington. In 1886 it suddenly drawned on him that the buffalo-hide hunters had nearly completed their task of exterminating the once-thunderous bison herds of the western plains. He got himself commissioned to collect for mounting the family group still to be seen in Washington. The vivid story of "Our Last Buffalo Hunt," and of many another hunt in the spacious Hornaday odyssey of which it was an early episode, was published in a book just lately...
...other hand it seems exceedingly dubious policy to give such a new venture as this too high a goal. This is a matter which should properly be left to the discretion of the Student Council, or to that of the Finance Committee which will actually have to collect the Budget...