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...Leacock is supreme in his particular field of literature. No one but he can paint such successful cartoons of modern foibles and conventions, so delightfully satirical yet withal so absurdly true. The imaginative sketches he conceives abound in unconscious witticisms, in masterly touches of caricature, which produce a fresh burst of laughter at every page; and above all, by the judicious employment of exaggeration, he never fails to achieve the desired effect. One can as easily read his essays without laughing as go swimming without getting wet; the ridiculous twists to his tales, the whimsical matter-of-factness with which...
...Japanese are allowed to increase by birth and by illegal infiltration as rapidly as they are now increasing in California, the fire of race antagonism will burst into a much more dangerous flame than has yet been the case. When violence, lynching, anti-Japanese Ku Klux Klans, and race-riots make their appearance in the West, as they no doubt will if the Japanese are allowed to take possession of the land and the work which the American considers his by racial right, we shall have a situation much more dangerous to international peace than the present slight wound...
...Connell '21, the next runner, succeeded in getting a lead of 20 yards over his two opponents. B. Wharton '22, the University's anchor man, was opposed by E. J. Thomson of Dartmouth and J. M. Watt of Cornell. Thomson closed up on Wharton by a remarkable burst of speed in the last lap, but Wharton won from the Dartmouth star in the last five yards. Watt of Cornell finished third, 15 yards behind the leaders...
...astronomical research which never fails to arouse popular interest. None of the recent discoveries can be found with the naked eye, their magnitude ranging between six and seven. The most recent nova bright enough to be seen with the naked eye was Nova Aquilae Number 3 which suddenly burst into brightness in June, 1918, and was visible as a star of the first magnitude for several nights, gradually fading, however, until by the end of the year it had disappeared as a naked eye object...
...water main to the Freshman dormitories burst yesterday afternoon and was not discovered until the heating tunnel had been flooded to a depth of ten feet. The level of water had risen to the bottom of the serving tunnel which connects the dormitories when and engine was secured from the Cambridge Fire Department and this tunnel was saved...