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...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't "worry." She caught even bigger fish than he did. She helped him write this book, which won't make any one jealous, because...
...course it's a mean dig on Lampy to get me to tell the Crime what I think of his first-attempt. They know I am an arty, or think I am, but what's to be said of scrawls? You can't fool me into thinking all the talent is gone and that bright pallettes and nimble wits and dashing brushes can't crash through with better dope than Lamp's Freshman sample...
...youth makes no friends in Cambridge, it is stupendously his own fault. I do not say that it is impossible for a Harvard student to go off by himself, dig a hole, lie down in it, and stay there--as he might not be able to do at a small college; I do say that those who affirm Harvard to be undemocratic or to value men for their money are either misinformed or defamatory. I could name plenty of men whom heaps of money did not save from social failure in Harvard College; and even more whom narrow means...
...other country has, as far as I know, any publication comparable with yours. It is a national asset of high value, especially as it is usually a long and difficult job to dig out of the ordinary American paper the news of importance and of more than local interest...
Never once did the committee come within four aces of averting a strike. It would have been infra dig for both operators and miners (accustomed to the intervention of U. S. Presidents, or, at the least, of Pennsylvania Governors) to lie down together at the behest of the local citizenry...