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...American Ornithologists' Union, founded in 1883, was an outgrowth of the "Nuttall Ornithological Club of Cambridge," so named in honor of Thomas Nuttall '26, who was once professor of natural history in the University. Since that time the organization has grown rapidly and has fulfilled its purpose of bringing together the most eminent active ornithologists in the country, and of regulating the nomenclature of North American birds. Among speakers at the present convention are officers of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, and of the Department of Agriculture at Washington...
...approach of one man's heart to another's, tends to retard Christian civilization. A second tendency which adds to the difficulty of problems in the East is the mad rush of city life which is more acute here than in the West. A third problem, one which has grown up within the last twenty years, is the class of young men, the sons of those who have made their own large fortunes. Young, educated, the masters of wealth and leisure, with no-large es- tates to take their attention and no active interest in politics, the possessors merely...
...philanthropic and religious activities which center in Phillips Brooks House have greatly grown in the last few years and are now very broad in character. These activities are conducted by the Phillips Brooks House Association and five allied but independent societies: the Christian Association, the St. Paul's Society, the Social Service Committee, the Catholic Club and the Religious Union...
...verse, too, thinks hard. Even "The Fawn" forgets to be a child in reason, and prettily woos his "nymph" (who, by the way, as an oak-dweller ought to have been a "dryad") with pantheistic appeal. The rude Scythian shepherd of Marlowe, brooding upon the unattainable, has grown "very weary" of his life,' and meditates upon the theme of vanity with the unction of a Stephen Phillips. And his rough soldiers as they march, sing with Shellevan opulence of fancy...
Furthermore for the past few years classes have grown so large that all those who have wished to attend, and who were entitled to have not been able to get tickets to the Statue. It is generally granted, moreover, that, though pretty, the exercises themselves have always seemed rather aimless and uninteresting...