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...resource of shocking the public into buying. But as the stimulant grows stronger, its effects become less potent, and one day the revolution against Victorian sentiment and unexiting domesticity will itself be revolted against. And then these literary dinosaur eggs will become as petrified as those of Pope's clan...
...making it impossible for the health officials of Nigeria to stamp out the plague. Dr. Shapara was initiated into the society and took part in its secret ritual in order to learn how to combat it. With this knowledge the Government of the colony was able to abolish the clan and to control smallpox...
Seniors, for all their epithet of "Solemn", are not usually an entirely serious-minded clan; and the proposals for reforming the University that were expressed in last year's questionnaires, are not all of them in deadly earnest. One for example, urged that Radcliffe should be incorporated into the University, so that Harvard might profit by the advantages of co-education as it is known in the West. Yet on the whole the 1922 First Annual Report, which reprints many of these brief reform-bills, is a storehouse of valuable suggestions from en whose ideas were formed on the best...
...clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field. The University players will line up in approximately, the same way as in the three previous games that resulted in one victory and two defeats. In every game a margin of one goal has decided the contest, the University losing to Clan-Stewart 4 to 3, and to the Chinese Students 1 to 0. The Crimson game with Northeastern University resulted in a 1-0 victory...
...Chinese Students' team on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The Crimson's line-up will be practically the same as in the two previous games that resulted in a victory and a defeat, the team defeating Northeastern University 1 to 0 and losing to the Clan Stewart football club last Saturday, 4 to 3. In these informal games Coach Welch is giving a great number of inexperienced men and members of last year's Frenchman team a chance to show their worth in actual contest...