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There is a pallid beauty in many of these passages, and the songs which interrupt the action and contain the best poetry have other effective bits. But they are not enough to disguise the fact that the whole tenor of the piece is that of an almost unhealthy shrinking from activity and the life of the world. It is perhaps significant that the writer's favorite adjective and one which appears on nearly every page is "wan". "Thalia" is wan; it exists in a dream world of its own and lacks the vitality that is an essential part...
...book edited by J. H. Lane '28, graduate secretary of the Brooks House will contain the usual summaries of sports, extra-curricular activities and organizations within the University Songs, cheers, calendars, publications, clubs, eating and social facilities, and the advertisements of Harvard business men will find a place in the manual for the benefit of the bewildered new-comers...
...Michaelson had passed through Key West 17 months earlier, returning from a junket in Cuba and Panama. Upon his Congressional "free entry" permit, six trunks had been passed without customs inspection by Key West officials. At Jacksonville two of the trunks, dripping with liquor, had been seized, found to contain assorted jugs and bottles of choicest whiskey, brandy, rum (TIME, April...
...reasons best known to himself, Mr. Hearst did not telegraph en route to his nearest editor (Omaha News-Bee). Nor could he contain himself until he reached the next-nearest Hearst city, Chicago. Instead, he arranged to be met in Kansas City by a representative of that city's daily Star, a most independent un-Hearstlike newspaper. Into the Star man's hands Mr. Hearst delivered a 3,000 word statement entitled: "We Need Laws We can Respect." He requested the Star man explicitly to see that the Star should publish the statement in full...
Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported the action of its Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry in striking from its list of "new and nonofficial remedies" a number of ergot preparations (important to women) believed to contain "putrefactive amines." Dr. Henry Hurd Rusby, Dean of Columbia University's College of Pharmacy, hailed this action as a step forward in his campaign against impure ergot, which he declares is now entering the U. S. from Russia and Poland (TIME, April 15). A scientist, Dr. Rusby resented and denounced any suggestion that his attack on Russian and Polish...