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...Union, beside Widener, stands Houghton Library, home of Harvard's rare books. Nearby is the President's House. Emerson, Sever, and Boylston Halls are used for classes, Robinson and Hunt Halls contain the School of Design. Other important buildings are Phillips Brooks House and Wadsworth House...
...family involved in this particular household dilemma doesn't contain the intrinsically comic characters so well remembered from those laugh-a-minute antecedents in the tradition of the zany famille and the trespasser on the hearth. Yet William Roos' adaptation of the Bollamy Partridge novel is bound to satisfy most of those who are willing to go along with a fairly original version of the old urban-rural conflict, despite the gaping holes left in the comic continuity by the playwright and director Ezra Stone, who will be remembered as Henry Aldrich in real life...
Sirs: In your Nov. 5 issue I find, on p. 88, the adjective "persnickety." I have just bought, at no little cost to myself, Webster's New International, Second Edition, which is said to contain nearly 600,000 words. I find no such adjective as "persnickety." I do not mean to be pernickety, but have I been gypped...
Professor Barbour, a student primarily of reptiles and amphibians and their geographical distribution, had interests also in far wider fields. His triad of well-known books, "A Naturalist at Large," "That Vanishing Eden," and "A Naturalist in Cuba," the latter concluded in 1945, contain little of the dry matter of zoology, though omitting nothing that a good naturalist could gather. His recent "Naturalist in Cuba," selections from which were printed in the Atlantic Monthly, discussed not only the animal, insect, and plant life of the region, but its geology, history, sociology, its people and their food as well...
...kill bees if they are confined in cages which contain plants sprayed with DDT. But that is no news to beekeepers, who have always had trouble with arsenic sprays. Dr. Wigglesworth steps delicately around the whole bee problem with an observation: ". . . beekeepers are a vociferous race. Like the bees they care for, their more lovable qualities may become obscure when they are roused-and they do not take kindly...