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Decked With Bird Baths...
...that Harvard's relations with other schools must embrace a host of additional problems formerly ignored. In part conceived by the amazingly fecund report of the Committee of Eight, the Committee on Educational Relations will for the first time offer, through the reports of its much travelled members, a bird's eye view of what is going on in other educational centers. The inquisitive faculty man, formerly struggling single-handed against impossible odds, will now have complete and well-organized information at his disposal...
...fetching back game for his master to eat, eats it himself. This unsporting behavior puts the cur outside the pale. Few sportsmen will credit this sentimental tale in which the "love and patience" of two boys turn a born biscuit eater into a total abstainer and top-notch bird dog. But nearly everybody will enjoy the performances of the biscuit cater (Promise), the colored boy (Cordell Hickman), the white boy (Billy Lee) and the field trials filmed in Albany...
Something new, but still a fizzle is "The Blue-bird." Maeterlinck's famous story of how a little girl seeks happiness everywhere, only to find it at home, promised splendid entertainment. But Hollywood, as it too often does, relied exclusively on lavish sets and a stupendous budget. Far from winning the children's fancy, or charming adults with gentle humor, its extravagance only cloys, and bores--with the sole exception of the storm and forest fire scene...
Chief dental weapon at that time was "the key," a large iron hook with a head that ringed an aching tooth, a long handle for a good grip. "There never was a claw on bird or beast," wrote Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "that was the cause of such anguish . . . such howls of agony as that diabolical instrument looking like a vulture's talon...