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...Some Ordinary Blokes." Lord Addison conferred with Labor's Herbert Morrison. Labor would agree to a conference, on condition that it would not affect the progress of the bill to clip the Lords' powers. That was not satisfactory to the Tory Lords. Debate ranged wide. Lord Lindsay of Birker, who is also the learned Master of Oxford's Balliol College, needled the aristocrats. What the House of Lords needed, he suggested, was "some ordinary blokes...
...President A. Lawrence Lowell truly said of Thomas W. Lamont, in conferring on him the LL.D. degree in 1931, that he was 'by nature a statesman, by occupation a financier, sagacious in counsel on affairs that affect all nations,' and that he found time 'for boundless service to his university...
...proves that a virus can be produced rapidly and cheaply. He took brain tissue from polio-infected mice, chopped it up, put it in an alcohol solution, then precipitated the virus by spinning it in an ordinary laboratory centrifuge. He worked with MM (mouse-monkey) virus, which does not affect human beings; but his method, he believes, can be used to isolate viruses that attack humans. When that is done, researchers can begin work on a vaccine...
...Here we are still tolerant . . . it is well that one of the world's centers of learning rejects partisanship when many others are blinded and we can only hope that post-bellum patriotism will not affect Harvard's internationalism." (October...
...those whose habits of thinking about courses have become fixed, the Faculty also voted to have the old course number appear in parentheses behind the new number for three years. The new system will affect primarily the large percentage of courses, some of them now with only one or two digits, which have heretofore been designated as undergraduate and graduate material...