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Obviously this sort of compendium is unsatisfactory from the reviewer's point of view, since it yields up no ponderous cosmology, no bone of contention with which he may take issue. Accepted for what it is, however, the book makes excellent fire-side reading. Most of the narratives are well chosen, and in many cases they have the ring of truth. In selecting them, Yeats-Brown has wisely avoided the glossy newness of the recent past, and, by temperate use of the editorial pencil, has preserved that quaintness of style which lends glamour to the adventurers of another...
...might be able to face the persistent problems of student aid with the continuity and courage that they demand. The emergency student employment, for example, has tended to become more literal minded than is necessary. Some of the jobs which have burgeoned under its hand, such as the museum bone dusting, have only a nominal utility; others, such as the library label sticking, occupy so much time as to militate against the fact that Harvard is, after all, a college, and that its student body had best conserve their energies to the acquisition of knowledge. The emergency employment appropriation could...
While the others watch, Professor Wright and Mr. Tanner for five secret days carefully, gently and awfully measure each & every princely bone. They photograph them, wrap them in finest lawn. Dean Norris replaces the bones in the urn with a statement on parchment of what has been done in June 1933. The Dean reads part of the Anglican burial service. The urn is resealed and replaced in its niche in Westminster Abbey. King George gets a confidential report, which he permits Anatomist Wright and Muniment-Keeper Tanner to reveal...
...lacrimal bone, smallest and most fragile of the face, of one of the boys was abnormal, suggesting, said Professor Wright, that he had ''cried his eyes...
Fellow-members of the Exchange were dumbfounded. No more anti-social act could they imagine. Such a man was beyond the pale. Last week four different brokers sprang forward to seize the bone which had belonged to Trader Goldman by announcing themselves as specialists in the three stocks which had been all his. No stock exchange rule did they violate, for any member may open a "book"' as a specialist in any stock at any time. Usage and small possibilities of profit ordinarily keep members from "horning in" on each other's business. But last week bitter brokers...