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...Arboretum on its hundred and forty acres has shrubs in number and variety sufficient to feed an army of the most epicurean locusts, and grows herbs to satisfy the meanest grub. At Jamaica Plain and in the Forest at Petersham are grown and studied all varieties of North American plants and trees; the Arboretum's annual "lilac week", which is nearly due, brings visitors from all distances; and the display of azaleas and rhododendrons which follows is equally notable...
...University has grown too big for the Yard. Besides those branches one must remember the Medical and Dental Schools firmly planted in Boston, the intermittent engineering camp at Squam Lake, and the representatives of libraries and museums who are rummaging abroad for treasures. When one is now asked where Harvard is located, he can reply with assurance only that the mailing address is Cambridge...
...Leviathan-chiefly because of changing her from a coal burner to an oil burner-her tonnage is now 59,956, an increase of 5,674 tons over her previous rating. The Shipping Board also adds that the Leviathan is 950.7 feet long-which would mean that somehow she had grown 43 feet longer than her former length of 907.6 feet. The Leviathan will soon leave Newport News, where she is being reconditioned and go to Boston for dry-docking and taking aboard tons of steward's supplies, bedding, dishes, furniture, etc. There will follow in June a trial trip...
...Ladies' Ways Daisy's older brother, in love with brilliant, sophisticated Muriel Eliot realizes that with grown-ups just as with children, a girl torments her lover because she loves...
...think that I am very radical. Indeed, I sometimes think that as I have grown older and slowed down a bit I am really not radical enough...