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Peabody Museum: Hemenway Fellowships to Gabriel W. Lasker, of Yonkers, New York, and for the first half-year to John C. F. Motz, of Holbrook; Winthrop Scholarship to John O. Brew, of Malden...
...Holbrook M. MacNeille, Benjamin Pierce Instructor in Mathematics, will teach at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, as au associate professor of Mathematics beginning next fall, Kenyon President Chalmers announced recently...
HOLY OLD MACKINAW-Stewart H. Holbrook-Macmillan...
...scale U. S. logging goes back a little more than a century but covers a lot of ground. Last week Stewart Holbrook covered a lot of the ground in a breezy volume called Holy Old Mackinaw which placed most emphasis on the industry's picturesque history and its hard-boiled camp followers. Subtitled A Natural History of the American Lumberjack, Holy Old Mackinaw has chapters on lumberjack songs and the changes in logging techniques, on river drives, log thieves, the I. W. W., forest fires, loggers' slang and legends. Author Holbrook's warmest passages are given over...
...Author Holbrook's romanticism seems artificial, his facts are interesting. Best section of his book is his account of forest fires. In Hinckley, Minn., at noon on Sept. 1, 1894, a forest fire that had been burning nearby swept into town as the wind changed, trapped most of its 1,200 inhabitants. As 475 of them climbed into a train at the station the engineer waited until the paint began to blister on the cars, then pulled out. Ninety waited in a cleared space beside the tracks, were burned to death. Two hundred others raced down the track...