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President Lowell's report has the peculiar virtue, each year, of collecting all the stray bits that are the University and fusing them for a moment into a unity for presentation. Side by side with a discussion of the House plan, the reading periods, and other topics of the College, one may find a revelation of progress in the Medical or Dental School; plans for work in a South African astronomical observatory follow those for extension of a system of research professorships in law. An Athletic program and a list of changes in degree requirements in the School of Education...
...Stray drafts, money...
Eight ghastly dum-dum wounds sufficed to kill ferocious Alcibiade Bebe in the space of a few seconds. Even quicker was the rabbitlike dive of the judge under his bench. Jurymen fled so precipitously that one slipped and broke an arm. A stray dum-dum bullet wounded, probably fatally, the distinguished correspondent of the great Italian daily Gionale d' Italia, Signor Adriano Del Vecchio...
Sticks and stones were pressed into use to mark the goals, and somebody's stray overcoat was the best apology for a net that could be found. Wild shooting sent the pucks into orchards and meadows and deep tangled wildwoods beyond the confines of the pond rink and no sandlot baseball game was ever more defendant on the finding of the only ball in the party than was the Harvard hockey team on the luck of the seekers after lost pucks...
...head is round and surrounded at the flat shoulder with fine cilia which vibrate (in life) so rapidly one after another around the circle of shoulder that the whole body seems to rotate. They are voracious and pugnacious, crouching on a microscopic plant and then swiftly springing at a stray water flea, a protozoa, a bit of leaf...