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— Philosophical interest — Smithsonian offer 



— Other proposals declined — Classes disbanded 



— Camping out — Fatal coincidences — Living 

 on faith — Greely and Funston — A distracted 

 bird — A wedding midst the ruins — An aston- 

 ished visitor 



2. Fashions in temblors — Earthquake rifts — From 

 Mendocino to San Benito — Rift of 1868 — Lava 

 dykes — Shock instantaneous for 192 miles — 

 Surface manifestations — Tomales Bay — 

 Olema — Bolinas to San Andreas Valley — Por- 

 tola — Buried men — End of the rift — An 

 "Oriental school" — Dishonest tactics — Roose- 

 velt's warning resented 



3. Carnegie Foundation for the Improvement of 

 Teaching — Pritchett's proposal — Funds ade- 

 quate — From pension to insurance — Age 

 limit at Stanford — Improvement of English 

 orthography — Expecting too much — Futile 

 humor — American game derived from Rugby 

 with marked differences — Professional coaches 



— Temporary prohibition of American game — 

 Battle, not sport 



BOOK FIVE (1907-1914) 

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1 . A call to Australia — Marie Hall — Chess on the 

 Moana — A magic circle — A traveled "wall- 

 eye" — Sharks and sharks — Making merry — 

 Suva, capital of Fiji — Fijians — Quoy's paint- 

 ing — Marine illusions 



2. Ruin wrought by cactus — Other disastrous im- 

 migrants — Books about Australia — Sydney 

 acquaintances — David — Holme — Filling 

 vacancies in Australia — Rutherford — Lawless- 

 ness at Capping — Degrees for women — Cheer- 

 ful Capping — Irreverence not uncommon — 

 Rugby — The Victoria game — Track meets 

 and tea 



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