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...build a hotel, announced that on the roof of the business building next their site they, would construct "the world's most unusual roof garden." Loam four inches deep will cover the roof. In the middle will stand a fountain. All around will spread gravel walks, flower beds, grass plots. At night, the garden will be lighted by imitation park-lanterns; in the winter it will be kept at a heat proper for flowers and grass. Tables will be spread the year round. Guests of the hotel may enjoy fountain, flowers, lights, upon the payment...
...gone, and Baker, and I have no doubt that others will follow. Something is wrong there, possibly the business school. Then, too, the yard is being "cloistered" to death, is being made to resemble a factory rather than a decent campus. To misquote Patrick Henry: "Give us our grass and our eim trees or give us death preferably the vegetable matter...
...tournaments; they expelled Dr. George King from the first ten; set in better places George M. Lott Jr., and Clarence J. Griffin. The first ten now stands: 1) William T. Tilden II, 2) Vincent Richards, 3) William M. Johnston, 4) Howard Kinsey, 5) Wallace F. Johnson, 6) Harvey Snod- grass, 7) John Hennessey, 8) Brian Norton, 9) George M. Lott Jr., 10) Clarence J. Griffin. Rules for Writers. At their meeting, the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association passed upon a rule governing the activities of tennis champions who, for one consideration or another, are moved to write for the press...
Still are the waters about Rio de Janeiro, deep are they and clear. Be- cause of their stillness, their clarity, to Rio last week repaired Zarh H. M. Pritchard,* painter. He paints pictures of the deep sea. Where the coral spreads its fan, where sea-grass lifts and sways to currents vague as wind, and blunt-nosed fishes ply, this way and that, their white bellies agleam, their eyes phosphorescent, there goes Painter Pritchard in a kind of diving suit. His pictures are hung in the Natural History Museum, Manhattan, in many European galleries. Says...
...various directions by the bustard, the secretary-bird, the ostrich, the stork. In the distance, the crashing and the rumbling of a passing elephant could faintly be heard. At the edge of a lake, a giant buffalo bellowed loudly for its mate; a frightened puff adder shot through the grass with incredible speed...