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...trees in the Yard leaf-covered; caps and gowns, Albert very few; crew, track, baseball, tennis: spring, so slow in coming, so swift to leave, is already starting away, and summer, bringing Commencement, is no longer distant. This is the time for Seniors to take thought; to measure well the little space still theirs before the tassels are tossed to the other side of the caps, and Harvard has opened the gate for another five hundred to enter the fellowship of educated...
...City of Philipopolis, onetime capital of the ancient independent country of Rumelia, was laid utterly in ruins. Some 80,000 families have now no shelter. The enormous tobacco warehouses crumpled like smashed cigar boxes. A heavy rain destroyed the value of their stocks, prime, world-famed Turkish leaf...
...huge pine tree caught fire in Leaf, Miss., and a bus full of school children started out for school. As the car bumped along the road, the tree tottered; when the car was precisely under it, the pine tree leaned slowly and fell, as true as a golden hammer, killing the driver and five of the children...
...astonished parents who had abandoned all hope of reform received penitent and regretful letters from their wayward offspring who promised rigid goodness for the future. The band was rushed to a grown-up prison, and soon the embittered "lifers" were shedding tears and promising to turn over a new leaf...
...ravages of the Civil War. Professor Child submitted his Italian verses to James Russell Lowell '38 for revision. Lowell at once "dashed off" an English version, and the thing was printed as a little pamphlet of 31 pages, with the Italian verses on one side of the leaf and Lowell's English interpretations on the opposite side. This pamphlet has been much sought after by Lowell collectors. It has no "title-page" but a "dropped head". There are three distinct forms of the pamphlet, with slight textual and typographic variations...