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...Consensus of scientists has therefore been that the forbears of Amerindians straggled into Alaska some 15,000 years ago, that prior traces of man on this continent should be viewed skeptically. Thus the academicians in Cambridge pricked up their ears last week when Dr. John Campbell Merriam, paleontologist, geologist, president of Washington's Carnegie Institution, said he believed man in the U. S. to be at least 100,000 years old, possibly 1,000,000. This conviction he owed not to the evidence of any single find but to the accumulated evidence of many finds. In several places...
That liquor is harmful to persons under twenty-one, but that the tavern, if approved, need not be kept away from the vicinity of Harvard or any other University, seems to be the consensus of opinion among the members of the Senate and House of Massachusetts. When interviewed yesterday State Senator Harry B. Putnam, who is active in liquor control work, said. "There is no harm in selling liquor to men over twenty-one, and since the liquor bill contains a provision prohibiting sale of liquor to anyone under this age, I see no reason why the tavern should...
...Nijinsky's roles, the saying has gone around that the 28-year-old Russian "now wears Nijinsky's mantle." Excited by such advance talk, New Yorkers jammed a theatre to overflowing this week for the U. S. debut of Serge Lifar. But when the evening was over consensus was that Lifar's "mantle" was threadbare and worn beyond recognition. If it had ever been Nijinsky's it had shrunk to a loincloth. Like Nijinsky, everyone wanted to know if Lifar could jump. He could and it was a pretty jump, but not impressively long or high...
...consensus of opinion was taken as to what field of experimentation would be most interesting to the group as a whole, and color photography met with general approval. Other choices were photographic optics, composition of pictures, technique of development and printing, and moving pictures...
...Critical consensus, while it writes off Gertrude Stein's less comprehensible utterings as a public loss, grants that she has been a private gain to more intelligible writers, and that her influence on contemporary literature has been vicariously potent. Serious critics take her seriously, even when they cannot understand what she is doing. Says Critic Wilson: "Most of us balk at her soporific rigmaroles, her echolaliac incantations, her half-witted-sounding catalogs of numbers; most of us read her less & less. Yet, remembering especially her early work, we are still aware of her presence in the background of contemporary...