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President Coolidge was subject to seasickness which always threatened to mar the pleasure of steaming up & down the Potomac with the Mayflower. On these excursions Col. Coupal would watch the President's face attain a certain degree of pallor and wryness. would pluck two pledgets of cotton from a case and on them pour a few drops of a liquid. Mr. Coolidge would plug the medicated cotton in his ears. Soon his face would relax and ruddy Col. Coupal was free to continue with his jovial stories...
Critics hailed the Harvard Dramatic Club's presentation of "Napoleon Intrudes" as a triumph that amateur theatrical groups seldom attain. Last night in Otto Bastian's play, "Circumstantial Evidence," the club has again earned the praise of discriminating lovers of the drama, not so much for its selection of a play, but for the superb acting which distinguishes the entire performance...
...should search for the human ill which has manifested itself most widely during all times and among all peoples, there can be but little doubt that headache would attain this unenviable distinction," wrote Columbia University's Professor Henry Alsop Riley last week.* Therewith he presented a 116-page summary of what is known about "the most baffling and dramatic form of pain in the head"- migraine. Professor Riley and a half-dozen other able investigators† are trying to solve the problem, with the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation paying the expenses of the study. Professor Ludwig Kast...
...results of the course and the theoretical demands of the science requirement side by side. Clearly the aim of the requirement is not that each graduate have a technical knowledge of some one science, but that he be cognizant of science as one avenue of human endeavor, that he attain a theoretical grasp...
...until a few days later when she made her formal U. S. concert debut in Manhattan's Town Hall. Then people who heard her went wild with enthusiasm. Poldi Mildner played at a terrific, breath-taking pace, with a force and authority which few women pianists ever attain. As the audience's excitement grew she played faster & faster. There seemed no limit to the speed with which her fingers could cover the keys. But aside from her technical skill and tremendous vitality, however, the critics found no more in Poldi Mildner than they would have looked...