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...been found necessary to lay the subway dirt underneath the ground that is already there. This, however, has become so salty on account of the marsh that even after it is built up, it will have to lie fallow for a year or two to allow the salt to wash out. It will then be seeded and when the grass has taken firm root the field will be ready...
...very well. In the afternoon the crew paddled over the inside course. The work was very encouraging and the crew continued the steady improvement shown in Cambridge early in the week, getting a better proportion throughout the stroke, and quickening the catch. Owing to the change from fresh to salt water all the riggers in the new shell had to be lowered. Coach Wray followed the work in a single, the weather being splendid...
...additions to the museum during the past year have been two bronze battle-axes from Damascus, four stone seals, two of which appear to be Babylonian, one Assyrian, and one Persian, two Arabic manuscripts, and about two dozen specimens of rock salt from the shores of the Dead Sea. Of the Greek papyri received from the Egypt Exploration Fund and reported a year ago, three have been deposited as a loan in the museum of the Classical Department of the University...
...Lloyd William Brooke, Salt Lake City, Utah. Robert Wayne Byerly, Cambridge. Tien Lin Chao, Tientsin, China. Philip Greeley Clapp, Roxbury. Kevork Costikyan, London, Eng. Roy Wilson Follett, North Attleboro. Alfred Arthur Jenkins, Scranton, Pa. Sidney Fiske Kimball, Dorchester. Hans von Kaltenborn, Madison, Wis. Oscar Gottfried Mayer, Chicago, Ill. Norman Burdett Nash, Cambridge. Harold Everett Porter, New York, N. Y. Fletcher Nichols Robinson, Southern Pines, N. C. William Green Roelker, Jr., Newport, R. I. Robert Emmons Rogers, Cambridge. Charles Milton Rogerson, Milton. George Emlen Roosevelt, New York, N. Y. Frederic Schenck, Lenox. Lee Simonson, New York, N. Y. Paul Dawes Turner...
...inclined to say. "This must be a pot-boiler," and then we take it up and to our surprise find again fresh, well-balanced work. "Admiral's Light" is no exception. It is a breath, all to short, of down-east air, tingling with the strong, salt flavor of sea-girt downs and long, pebbly beaches; a tantalizing glimpse of gray ocean and pine-clad islands. The story, as a mere story, amounts to little, but why should it? The book does not purport to be more than a few stray chapters from the lives of a few people, isolated...