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...other kind of scholarship that satisfies itself with the minutiae of scientific research in literature or history, that dissects some unimportant subdivision of a subject, and that demands of its students anything but a human interest in it, in the field of true scholarship, publication is a gift to the civilization of the time. In the other field: very little of what is published has any permanent value at all. --Yale Alumni Weekly
...Edward W Pou of North Carolina, sounded the name of Nicholas Longworth, said: A great many of us feel that our old enemy, the Republican Party, might do itself proud if in time it shall put him [Mr Longworth] forth as a candidate for the greatest office in the gift the American people and the entire world. He has been tried in the political fire. He stands forth today without a mark against his fair name. He stands forth as a rugged, typical American. We all on our side and on both sides wish him well. He presides over...
...suspended all classes one afternoon last week so that the students might parade to the railroad station, return and present to President Frank Palmer Speare a muscular, thick-furred canine, one of the famed Husky-dog team that took diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in 1925. It was a gift, a new Northeastern mascot, from Dog-driver Leonhard Seppala. Driver Seppala was present. He and the dog rode on a float from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard's book of etiquet and saluted the Northeastern...
...Janeiro. It became known that a Brazilian admirer, conscious of my flair for describing animals (both domestic and wild) had sent to my hotel an armadillo, a creature for whose origin I facetiously accounted in my Just So story about the porcupine and the tortoise. I kept the gift one day, then I returned it explaining: 'Hotel-life is too terrible a fate for an armadillo...
...thing; for it was the Reverend Mr. Barnard, who, in the middle of the last century, replaced the old library which had been lost by fire with a new one of his own. The colleges in those days was not the prosperous organization it is now, and such a gift meant as much then as would the gift of a new library today, should Widener burn to the ground...