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...were "made-up" boys. David Putnam is a real one, aged 12, and besides he went thousands of miles on the ocean (with Deep-Sea-Explorer William Beebe, to Panama and the Galapagos Island) and had a lot of modern tackle and interested grown-ups to fish with and collect birds' eggs, turtles, lizards, bugs, beetles and even scorpions. He saw sharks and devilfish, albatrosses and penguins, sea lions and octopuses. He helped dig buried treasure and played pirate on desert islands at the Equator. His mother was with him but she is a great sport and didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bibliophile* | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...Good Friday collect, substitute "Have mercy upon all who know Thee not" for "Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, infidels and heretics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To New Orleans | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

Since only 22 of the 80 men assigned to collect the $4000 fund for the Phillips Brooks House reported the result of their efforts to the Committee last night, it was decided to extend the closing date of the drive to next Monday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILLIPS BROOKS DRIVE EXTENDED TILL MONDAY | 10/3/1925 | See Source »

...Phillips Brooks House Association will hold its annual Drive for funds this week. Letters will be received in this morning's mail by 85 students who have been asked to collect for the fund and to attend a Dinner Wednesday evening, September 30, at which the drive will be launched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. STARTS DRIVE FOR FUNDS WEDNESDAY EVENING | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...credited, Dean Frederick Sheetz Jones has announced the possible erection of an academic skyscraper in the center of Yale campus which will overshadow Nathan Hale and Connecticut and even the hated purlieus of Hush Hall. Shades of Timothy Dwight! How will God-Bless-You Mary ever collect her washing and how will Jerry deliver the Lit and the Oldest College Daily at the twentieth floor? Why by express elevator of course, and the undergraduate of the future will lounge elegantly about in libraries, billiard parlors and sun rooms hundreds of feet above the site of the historic Sophomore fence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO HEAVEN WITH YALE! | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

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