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...nearly 18 years Harvard University has grown and prospered under your presidency. You brought to your high office ripe experience of public service, of teaching, of scholarship, and above all a clear vision of what this University may accomplish in leading its students to love learning, and the wisdom to discern the way. Under your leadership, scholarly attainment has become more attractive to young men here than ever before; and every part of the University has profited thereby. From the College now go each year into our graduate schools large groups of young men who have already distinguished themselves...
Eels, the only freshwater dwellers that descend to salt water to breed, are caught in great numbers and sizes (up to 8 ft., 3 in. for congers) as they go to sea in the autumn but the specimens are never sexually ripe. Sea dredging has hitherto brought to light no eel eggs, which are evidently laid at great depths. Laboratory observations have proved that eels spawn but once, dying immediately afterwards. All that ever comes back from the depths are transparent baby eels about 2 in. long, with which harbors and rivers teem in the spring. Before spawning, matured eels...
...charity luncheon at the Union League Club, Manhattan, produced a noticeable effect. The president, Banker Henry Fletcher, explained the purpose of the campaign-to raise $100,000 for the McAuley Water Street Mission. He talked about the Mission's history, activities. There was silence. Into this moment, ripe for emotional disturbance, John Markle threw his statement...
Opening last week at the Majestic after long runs in New York, Chicago, and points west, Mr. Shubert once again displayed for conservative Boston an all too ripe review--the lines diluted, the cast watered, the costumes, after the first few scenes at least, padded. Even the actors and the chorus seemed to realize that they were in Boston, that laughs would come hard, and --"oh what...
...United States Jeers the face of dictatorship. It has shown that the officials of the American Federation of Labor are traitors to the trust of their comrades are reactionaries who do not lead but mislead the members of the trade unions. It has shown that the time is ripe for he workers themselves to organize and forget the differences in their trades, religion and nationalities...