Excerpt from La Revue, 1941 Although he will tell you that in his opin ion there is no oil in Alabama, Dr. Russell S. Poor this year condescended to lead a group of experts in search of the liquid. He came back with an I-told - you-so smile. The head of the Division of Natural Sciences covers a lot of ground in his geological rock hunting, but students usually toss bouquets instead of pebbles at his classroom method because he can keep them awake without their regretting it. The big subject in the mind of Mr. Mc Williams is no longer Chaucer's astrological computations or the power of the comita tus in Beowulf. No. Richebourg Gaillard, Junior, sends him to class these days with such astounding statements as: A child cannot focus its eyes until it is several weeks old. Between such statements, Richebourg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.