Monthly Archives: December 2014

Course Reserves

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Help us get your reserve course material together for the Spring 2015 semester. Send us your lists of items to library.reserves@umb.edu.

Books not already in our collection will be purchased; full titles, authors and ISBNs will help. The library purchases titles as eBooks when available. You can also send us your print or electronic articles to be posted on our e-reserve system.  Include a link or attach a copy of the item(s) to your email.  If you do not have a copy, provide a complete citation.  Print material can be dropped off at the reserves office on the 4th floor of Healey Library, or at the circulation desk after hours.  Please indicate the course number for each list.

Find more details at http://www.umb.edu/library/about/policies/reserves#put.

Contact us with questions at library.reserves@umb.edu.

The sooner we have your course lists, the sooner we can work on making your material available.

It was eight o’clock when the train passed through the defiles of the Humboldt Range

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It was eight o’clock when the train passed through the defiles of the Humboldt Range, and half-past nine when it penetrated Utah, the region of the Great Salt Lake, the singular colony of the Mormons.

During the night of the 5th of December, the train ran south-easterly for about fifty miles; then rose an equal distance in a north-easterly direction, towards the Great Salt Lake.

 

You do not know what soap is, and I shall not tell you

 

 

You know what sickness is. We called it a disease. Very many of the diseases came from what we called germs. Remember that word—germs. A germ is a very small thing. It is like a woodtick, such as you find on the dogs in the spring of the year when they run in the forest. Only the germ is very small. It is so small that you cannot see it—” Hoo-Hoo began to laugh. “You’re a queer un, Granser, talking about things you can’t see. If you can’t see ’em, how do you know they are? That’s what I want to know. How do you know anything you can’t see?” “A good question, a very good question, Hoo-Hoo. But we did see—some of them. We had what we called microscopes and ultramicroscopes, and we put them to our eyes and looked through them, so that we saw things larger than they really were, and many things we could not see without the microscopes at all.

“Spin me the yarn,” said Ahab; “how was it?”

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  • “I was ignorant of the White Whale at that time
  • Well, one day we lowered for a pod of four or five whales, and my boat fastened to one of them; a regular circus horse he was, too, that went milling and milling round so, that my boat’s crew could only trim dish, by sitting all their sterns on the outer gunwale
  • Presently up breaches from the bottom of the sea a bouncing great whale, with a milky-white head and hump, all crows’ feet and wrinkles
  • ” “It was he, it was he!” cried Ahab, suddenly letting out his suspended breath
  • “And harpoons sticking in near his starboard fin