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...ring the sign of infinity around their necks for over 200 years now: first as scholars, then as artists, and finally as a fashion statement denoting... ...ht, smell and hearing, compete and survive during the seasonal drought of the African Veldt? The drying up of vegetation, waterholes, the migrating... ...n live for 2 weeks in the Veldt from the marrow found in the thigh bone of an African antelope. Not only could they eat what was inside the bones, ... ...of one- sided Splitness was chased out of the Garden of Eden that was once the African Veldt, the velvet soft land of Paradise where they discovered ... ...riginal Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver than Lion... ...was no such thing as a desert on Earth. The oldest desert is Namib Desert in Southern Africa: Reverse the name Namib Desert and you get Bi-man… yo... ...up countries into two segments… like Ireland? Or the American Civil War? Or South and North Korea? Or North and South Vietnam? How much sufferin... ...titute he worked in, finally forced him to make the scrolls available to other scholars. Even then, his niggardly sharing of facts that has no relev... ...ca: stolen from the German Boers, and the Dutch. The white supremacist nation Rhodesia; created out of the pure greed of one man: Cecil Rhodes…, whi...

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...e paid to the achievements of the university at Timbuktu and to the Muslim scholars to its east. There was a history of great philosophers of Greece... ...gnized by their products--the Great Wall, the pyramids, the Parthenon, the Rhodes Colossus, the aqueducts of Rome. And there were Moses, Jesus, Moha... ...n‘t want the farmers going into the information technology businesses. But South Korea is just as high, and I don‘t know how many snow plows they ne... ...cotton is being raised, even though it isn‘t needed. Meanwhile sub- Saharan African countries are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in los... ...eference for males and seldom use amniocentesis for sex selection. South Korea showed us the way when they reversed their male to female birt... ...have much more freedom. Of course you have found this in the West already. Southern Europe and the upper middle classes in your country have shown re... ...ld have that problem in your country, or even if it were proposed for some African countries by Anglos. But here it is Asians reducing the populatio...

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...ege meetjng in Jesup Hall last Friday evening. Francis Bowes Sayre 1909 of South Beth- lehem, Pa., was elected assistant football manager on the first... ...mberless class of 1910.'" ''To such a class as ours, composed of athletes, scholars, debaters, men in every branch of college activities, you were but... ...ING CO. North Adams, flass. Agents and Collectors DURFEE'07&VANDECARR'09 8 SOUTH COLLEG* All laundry left where the collector can get it on Monday mor... ...ectionery Full lino of Cigars and Cigarettes At Car Line Cor. Main St. and Southworth Ave. A MercifulMan is merciful to his face. He keeps it smooth a... ...an an iiiorease in the chances of WillianiB at Worcester. Carelessness .in Scholarship A word concerning the whole- sale athletic disqualifications in... ...strated lecture by Professor Rice on "The Mystery of the Nile," that great African river which, rising nearly four thousand miles from the sea, flows ... ...nchidae, Cos, Hariicarnassos and Cnidus. After Professor Howes has treated Rhodes, Pso- fe«aor Rice will take up Lindos, and Professor Howes, Crete; t... ...THER CHOSEN FROM WILLIAMS Carroll A. Wilson 1907 Selected as Massachusetts Rhodes Scholar At the meeting of the Rhodes scholarship committee of Massa-... ...nrolled in the Harvard Law school, was chosen to receive the Massachusetts Rhodes scholarship. While at Williams last year he became a candidate for t...

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...terly lose their force before they reach the islands. The soft western and southerly winds which breathe upon them sometimes produce gentle sprinkling... ...rma- tion to the story, and added new honors to the memory of Antaeus. The Africans tell that after the death of Antaeus, 13 Plutarch’s Lives his wif... ...d men, whom for honor’s sake he called Romans, combined with seven hundred Africans, who landed with him when he first entered Lusitania, together wit... ...ter being wounded and losing his horse, he escaped unexpect- edly. For the Africans with Sertorius, who took Pompey’s horse, set out with gold, and co... ...ephaestion. Afterwards, when Nearchus, with a fleet, was to be sent to the Southern Sea, Alexander bor- rowed money of his friends, his own treasury b... ... design, but larger 130 V olume Two and more magnificent. When he came to Rhodes, he at- tended the lectures of all the philosophers there, and gave ... ...ays none could be obtained; and, sec- 198 V olume Two ondly, if a violent south wind should rise upon them, while they were traveling through the wid... ...he decline, Caesar’s friends advised him to return to Rome, but he went to Rhodes, and entered himself in the school of Apollonius, Molon’s son, a fam... ...d give him the priest- hood of the goddess at Paphos. He himself stayed at Rhodes, making some preparations, and expecting an answer from Cyprus. In t...

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... on the 5 Thackeray 22nd of August, the “Lady Mary Wood” was sailing from Southampton with the “subject of the present memoir,” quite astonished to f... ...horses. Before sunset we skirted along the dark savage moun- tains of the African coast, and came to the Rock just before gun-fire. It is the very im... ...e box of wood and iron, across Channel, Biscay Bay, and the Atlantic, from Southampton Water to Gibraltar Straits. CHAPTER IV: GIBRALTAR SUPPOSE ALL T... ...d to—and under this assurance we passed the Strait, and began coasting the African shore calmly and without the least apprehension, as if we were as m... ...s, rising very stately from the sea, and skirted by gloomy purple lines of African shore, with fires smoking in the mountains, and lonely settlements ... ...aid to lie three of the most gallant relics in the world:the keys of Acre, Rhodes, and Jerusalem. What blood was shed in defending these em- blems!Wha... ...the sun. 74 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo CHAPTER VIII: RHODES THE SAILING OF A VESSEL direct for Jaffa brought a great num- ber of... ...ss and sadness about a farthing. Ambassadors from our Hebrews descended at Rhodes to buy provisions, and it was curious to see their dealings:there wa... ...over a tawdry Gothic painting, scarcely better fashioned than an idol in a South Sea Morai. The histories which they are called upon to reverence are ...

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... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in those southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.” —Ulloa’ s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the impor-... ...is a mammiferous animal without hind feet.” — Baron Cuvier. “In 40 degrees south, we saw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take any till the first of Ma... ...of his colossal limbs, making the low cabin framework to shake, as when an African elephant goes passenger in a ship. But for all this, the great negr... ... even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes. There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothi... ...e green-skulled crews! Well, well; belike the whole world’s a ball, as you scholars have it; and so ’tis right to make one ballroom of it. Dance on, l... ..., the home of the fire worshippers. As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most d... ...astle deck, he now pro- ceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa. This done he turns the pelt inside out, l... ...hose ancient tongues had been really spoken in their hearing by some lofty scholars. So, to my fond faith, poor Pip, in this strange sweet- ness of hi...

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... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in these southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...h an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.” Ulloa’s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the importa... ...erous animal without hind feet.” 10 Extracts Baron Cuvier. “In 40 degrees south, wesaw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take any till the first of May,... ...of his colossal limbs, making the low cabin framework to shake, as when an African elephant goes passenger in a ship. But for all this, the great negr... ... even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes. There you stand, lost in the infinite se 156 Chapter 35 The Mast H... ...reen skulled crews! Well, well; belike the whole world’s one ball, as your scholars have it; and so ’tis right to make one ball room of it. Dance on, ... ...ia, the home of the fire worshippers. As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most de... ...ecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa. This done he turns the pelt inside out, l... ...hose ancient tongues had been really spoken in their hearing by some lofty scholars. So, to my fond faith, poor Pip, in this strange sweetness of his ...

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...ncertainty to be thought strange, seeing the manner of the death of Scipio Africanus, who died at his own home after supper, has been found capable ne... ...e chief of the augurs covered Numa’s head, and turned his face towards the south, and, standing behind him, laid his right hand on his head, and praye... ... ending had, to all observation, been neither rainy nor much troubled with southern winds; and of the many lakes, brooks, and springs of all sorts wit... ...orth or Adriatic Sea is named from the T uscan city Adria, and that to the south the T uscan Sea simply. The whole country is rich in fruit trees, has... ...on the Ionians and Dorians in Asia, and the islanders as far as Lesbos and Rhodes; five to visit all the places in the Hellespont and Thrace, up to By... ...nians were ever cut off before in any one battle; as they usually employed Africans, Spaniards, and Numidians in their wars, so that if they chanced t... ...bius Maximus, who was five times consul; the younger, by the son of Scipio Africanus, his cousin- german, and was by him named Scipio. Of the daughter... ...tellus received in his banishment, and in what manner he spent his time at Rhodes, in philosophy, will be more fitly our subject, when we write his li... ... sails in the night, while he kept them down in the day, thus came safe to Rhodes. Being furnished with ships at Rhodes, he also pre- vailed upon the ...

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...intedly exposed. Now, having made that explanation, we go on to inform the Southern reader—that an old traditionary usage has prevailed in Scotland, b... ... than theatrical ostenostentation. Mr. C. requires a good deal of critical scholarship, Mr. D quar- rels with this as unsuitable to a rustic congregat... ...s,) of translating the Scriptures into languages scarcely known by name to scholars, of converting Jews, of organizing and propagating education. T ow... ...s a question exclusively spiritual. And by whom was it thus published? The Southern reader must here not be careless of dates. At present, viz. in 184... ... off. Let this chance turn out as it may, we repeat for the information of Southerns—that the church, by shutting off the persons of particular agitat... ... authority, that it was a practice of Patriarchal descent amongst both the African and Asiatic Bedouins, to suspend rings of iron, wood, or braided ha... ...comparison with Charlemagne. All the knowledge current in Rome, Athens, or Rhodes, at the pe- riod of Caesar’s youth, the entire cycle of a nobleman’s... ...the verb devoir, in all tenses, that eternal stumbling-block to bad French scholars, is uniformly mis- translated. As an instance of ignoble language,...

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...ou feel very little. The worst moment is be- fore things happen. Rowe, the African sportsman, told me that he had seen cowardice often enough in the p... ...bstantial clearness. The jungle that bordered the little encampment north, south, and west seemed to have crept a little nearer, enriched itself with ... ...here’s the army, there’s diplomacy. There’s the Empire. You can be a Cecil Rhodes if you like. You can be a Winston….” 47 H G Wells 5 5 5 5 5 Perhaps... ...said. “In Brixton. She doesn’t do particularly badly—or well. I live on my scholarship. I have lived on scholarships since I was thirteen. And you see... ...anned, but he had many walks that bristled with impressions. Northward and southward, eastward and west- ward a dreaming young man could wander into a... ...ting up, and the clustering excitements of the late hours. And he went out southward and eastward into gaunt regions of reeking toil. As yet he knew n... ...erspectives and light-soaked blue sky, seemed cool and quiet. A flavour of scholarship pervaded them—a little blended with the flavour of innumerable ... ...he elemental facts of a great social organization. It was having its South African war, its war at the other end of the earth, with a certain de- feat... ...of spending the summer, the sort of soft holiday a man learns to take from scholars and literary men. A man like Sir Philip, he thought, ought to have...

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...usin. Vit. Hom. l. c. p. 311. The etymology has been con- demned by recent scholars. See Welcker, Epische Cyclus, p. 127, and Mackenzie’s note, p. xiv... ...ns, some of which, had they been suggested to the author by his Mæcenas or Africanus, he would probably have adopted. Moreover, those who are most exa... ...ghty numbers move. So roll the billows to the Icarian shore, From east and south when winds begin to roar, Burst their dark mansions in the clouds, an... ..., the sun of Hercules, Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas, From Rhodes, with everlasting sunshine bright, Jalyssus, Lindus, and Camirus whi... ...ander’d o’er the main; Where, many seas and many sufferings past, On happy Rhodes the chief arrived at last: There in three tribes divides his native ... ... re- ceived Laodice, the daughter of Cycnus. 16 The Myrmidons dwelt on the southern borders of Thessaly , and took their origin from Myrmido, son of J... ..., we have in the Homeric descriptions the complete picture of an Indian or African war canoe, many of which are considerably larger than the largest s... ...55. 90 Æsepus ’ flood. A river of Mysia, rising from Mount Cotyius, in the southern part of the chain of Ida. 91 Zelia, a town of T roas, at the foot ... ...ccidental murder of Liscymnius, he was commanded by an oracle to retire to Rhodes. Here he was chosen king, and accompa- nied the Trojan expedition. A...

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...ng the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in....

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...ble ap- pearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, be- tween Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as ... ...lit the cur- rent into a broad-arrowhead, at the offsets from the piers of Southwark Bridge, at the paddles of the river steamboats as they beat the f... ... A Wice. T ools. Bones, warious. Skulls, warious. Pre- served Indian baby. African ditto. Bottled preparations, warious. Everything within reach of yo... ...o shakes a momentary flare out of the candle, as that the ba- bies—Hindoo, African, and British—the ‘human warious’, the French gentleman, the green g... ...tual Friend his back to the fire, executing a statuette of the Colossus at Rhodes. T wemlow has before noticed in his feeble way how soon the V eneeri... ...oung person’s thoughts could try to scale the region bounded on the north, south, east, and west, by the plate; was a monstrous imagination which he w... ...ved the girl. ‘I don’ t know whether you happen to have read many books of African T ravel, Mr Rokesmith?’ said R. W . ‘I have read several.’ ‘Well, y... ...of the peaceful texts from Scripture on the wall, the most advanced of the scholars might have taken fright and run away from the master. Chapter 12 M... ...dea, for that was inexorably impossible. The school reopened next day. The scholars saw little or no change in their master’s face, for it always wore...

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...is destined to ornament. He outdoes all the dandies, all the wits, all the scholars, and all the voluptuaries of the age—an indefinite period of time ... ...oy, (and marry ’tis yet a thin one,) I have broken a lance with Solyman at Rhodes, and smoked a chibouque with Saladin at Acre. But enough of this. Te... ...orth by Lord Bareacres’ Country; on the West by Sir Granby Growler; on the South by the Hotion. An Arkytect & Survare, a young feller of great emagina... ...rend, John George Godfrey de Bullion Thistlewood, Earl of Bareacres, Baron Southdown, in the Peeridge of the United Kingdom, Baron Haggismore, in Scot... ...rts joy!” . . . “Bareacres, me, the ladies of the famly , with their sweet South- down, B’s eldest son, and George Silvertop, the shabby Capting (who ... .... (six elephant’s teeth, twelve tons of palm-oil, or four healthy niggers, African currency)—the shares of this helegeble investment rose to 1, 2, 3, ... ... you guess the rest? Haven’t you seen the Share List? which says:— “‘Great Africans, paid 9d.; price 1/4 par.’ “And that’s what came of my pore dear f... ...nd sea swarmed with their ships hasting from their forts and islands, from Rhodes and Byzantium, from Jaffa and Ascalon. The Pyrenean peaks beheld the...

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... birth is very doubt- ful. For long it was placed as far back as 1483: now scholars are disposed to put it forward to about 1495. The reason, a good o... ...ten, in regard to French patois— leaving out of count the languages of the South—that the words or expressions that are no longer in use to-day are bu... ...d Sicily, all ransacked, and Malta too. I wish the pleasant Knights of the Rhodes heretofore would but come to resist you, that we might see their uri... ...t our return. From thence we will sail eastwards, and take Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Cyclade Islands, and set 115 Rabelais upon (the) Morea. It... ...all the diversity of precious stones that are to be seen in the orient and south parts of the world. Let nothing of all these be hidden from thee. The... ...ller of beans. Drusus, a taker of money at the doors of playhouses. Scipio Africanus, a crier of lee in a wooden slipper. Asdrubal, a lantern-maker. H... ...know not what of the west and occident of my time, and signifieth that the south and meridian of mine age is past. But what then, my gentle companion?... ...tua & Pantagruel of pleasure you can have taken in gazing on the lions and Africans (so methinks you call their tigers) near the belfry, or in ogling ... ...oined together, wherein he was imitated by Pompey the Great at Rome in his African triumph. The good Bacchus was seen drinking out of a mighty urn, wh...

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...storian of Concord, for I love to quote so good author ity, “rises in the south part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in... ...d a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between Hopkinton and Southborough, through Framingham, and between Sudbury and Wayland, where it... ...land, where it is sometimes called Sudbury River, it enters Concord at the south part of the town, and after receiving the North or Assabeth River, wh... ...s. Their harbors lay as smooth and fairy like as the Lido, or Syracuse, or Rhodes, in our imagination, while, like some strange roving craft, we flitt... ...; there should be one hour, if no more, which the day did not bring forth. Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning. But is i... ...xpression the emphasis and sincerity of his action. Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly... ...r all. There are some passages in the Antigone of Sophocles, well known to scholars, of which I am reminded in this connec tion. Antigone has resolve... ...ut Sahara, where caravans and cities are buried, began with the bite of an African flea? This poor globe, how it must itch in many places! Will no god... ...e increasing glit tering sandbar,—and saw the fair and fruitful island of Rhodes “springing up from the bottom, Capable of feeding many me...

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...te caps upon the water, and the iris and tama- risk are all asway with the south-west wind that was also blowing yesterday. M. Blériot has done very w... ...hods and traditions is leading us towards grave dangers, intensi- fies. In South Africa the Boers taught us in blood and bitter- ness the obvious fact... ... of prominent politicians in the days before Mr. Chamberlain’s return from South Africa and the adoption of T ariff Reform by the Unionist Party; and ... ...ed seamen, adventurers like Clive, ec- centrics like Gordon, invalids like Rhodes. It has been made, in spite of authority and officialdom, as no othe... ...eteenth-century modernism with the hatred natural to a man of considerable scholarship and in- tense aesthetic sensibilities. His mind turned, exactly... ...re laboratories, more scholar- ships out of the general mass of elementary scholars, a quasi- military discipline in our colleges and a great array of... ... with these a big proportion—a proportion we may increase steadily—of keen scholarship men from the elementary schools. Such a braced-up class as we s... ...- other twenty-six millions were foreigners. Another nine mil- lion are of African negro descent. Fourteen million of the sixty-five million native-bo... ...lectual power from the British Colonel Norths, for ex- ample, or the South African Joels. In my “Future in America” I have taken the former largely at...