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...work, the scope of the mission has now widened considerably. It now not only attends to the transient fisher population, but also to the natives who are found to be quite intelligent when afforded an opportunity for education. From the one hospital on the ship, the mission has grown to have four hospitals on land, and in addition to this a number of churches, schools, and libraries. It is in order to run these establishments that the mission each year calls for volunteers who pay their own expenses to come to Labrador and work as "waps...
...affairs, gathered his Western and Middlewestern cohorts and advanced on the Speakership. Mr. Madden, as described by the apt pen of Clinton W. Gilbert, "belongs to the line of watchdogs of the Treasury who growl when anyone asks for appropriations. . . . He looks gnarled, like a workingman who has grown rich. And that is what he is-a stonecutter who has become a millionaire." There was another, however, who had already started for the place. This was Nicholas Longworth, 14 years younger than Mr. Madden, but co-equal with him in 18 years' service in the House...
There is a recurrent journalistic fable that grains of wheat taken from ancient Egyptian tombs have grown into new wheat plants. Scientists take no stock in it. The maximum length of time in which wheat grains retain their germinating power is well established as about 25 years. In cases where people have made the experiment in good faith and obtained positive results, it is probable that they were bubbled by fakers who sold them modern wheat for ancient...
...Charles Townsend Copeland Alumni Association was formed and the custom of holding an informal dinner on the night following the reading was instituted. As the years have passed and more and more men have realized the contribution of Professor Copeland to the life of the University, the Association has grown into a very large group. Samuel A. Welldon '04, chairman of the committee on arrangements, said today that all attendance records will be broken at the dinner to be given to Professor Copeland tomorrow night, stating that more than 125 men will be present...
Percy Hammond?"More suitable to the little ones than to grown...