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...books, too, may eventually be made self-explanatory, so that even a second Tarzan will find no difficulty in understanding them. In any case the scheme seems a possible though only a partial answer to the question. If the proposed experiment at Columbia proves at all successful, the educational mountain may yet come to Mahomet...
...Europe the National Park idea is an innovation. The royal game preserves have kept from extinction several species of wild game like the bouquetin corresponding to our mountain goat; but the formation of a National Park has been hailed all over Italy with enthusiasm...
...Loring '26 of Newtonville and E. B. Branns '25 of Iron Mountain, Mich., were elected to the stage department, and A. H. Starke '25 of Centralia, Ill., was chosen for the properties...
...which prevents proper breathing. Nevertheless the lecturer placed no reliance on the use of oxygen. The difficulties involved in carrying a sufficient quantity more than balances its possible utility. It is also disliked for sentimental reasons. The climbers would like to think that they have climbed the mountain by their own efforts and not through the help of any new-fangled scientific contraption...
...professor in jack boots bracing himself waist deep against the current of a mountain stream and playing a trout with the gusto and skill of a true sportsman seems a most amazing disruption of the proprieties. Scarcely less startling is the discovery of a member of the faculty deep in a thrilling murder story or a scholar of the classics telling after-dinner stories at which the listener cannot help laughing...