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...length and 16 feet beam, one of the smallest vessels to cross the Atlantic. The members of our research party were Dr. William Erving of John Hopkins, Mr. Harry Armony of Harvard who owned and navigated the schooner, my-self and crew. The purpose of the expedition was to collect zoological specimens, especially of the bird life of the West African Island and to make a general study of these islands and their inhabitants...
...Repeal miscellaneous nuisance taxes either because they are difficult to collect or because they are unnecessarily inconvenient for the public...
...France is responsible for the present unstable condition in Germany, she is cutting off her own nose. A break-up of that nation would be a calamity not only to France but to the world. However hard it may be to collect reparations from Germany as a whole, collection from a piece-meal Germany would probably be impossible. Nor would her hopes for peace and security be realized. Just as a buffer state might work more harm than good, a conglomeration of microcosms allying with various powers, sought after by various powers, and always standing with chips on their shoulders...
...predestined to stand as the most authoritive, the richest and the fullest. Only one man is equipped with the experience and information to write such a classic, and that is President Emeritus Eliot. Almost three-quarters of a century of continuous contact with Harvard have fitted him preeminently to collect the traditions and expound the doctrines which have guided Harvard men for a dozen generations...
...first place you must understand that I am too ignorant of condi- tions in America to express any opinion on them: I have but just begun to collect opinions of Harvard University. And even in English universities, my experience has been such as to enable me to speak with authority of but one of them,--and that one naturally enough, is Oxford...