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Hjalmar Branting, once more Premier of Sweden (TIME, Oct. 27), was the "big man" at Brussels last week. Mainly through his work, a compromise solution was quickly arrived at; and away into space scurried all the dark war clouds...
...Progressives tended to take this announcement ill, their tempers probably did not improve at the early returns from the polls. But no matter how black things may turn out, a silver lining shines through their dark cloud. The report of Professor Henry T. Moore of Dartmouth indicates that they are the most intelligent group represented among the political divisions at Harvard, at least by the criterion of the Rank List...
Princeton, N. J., November 4.--The final stages of practice for the game with Harvard started in earnest today. Coach Roper worked his first and second teams hard till long after dark. Punting, drop kicking, individual position drill, dummy practice and comprehensive offensive and defensive movements were taken up and treated in turn...
...Crouching pallid in the dock, abject or surly or swooning, his lips parched, his fingers fumbling over his face, the soul within him howling like a dark creature brought to earth, a murderer waiting for sentence. The judge's words drone in his ears, he lifts his sleeve to hide his cheek. It is important, that sleeve. If suave, well-turned, fashionable, this agony and sweat will pass; he will merely remove his abode to a comfortable jail where he can eat, sleep, exercise, read, at leisure. If the sleeve be tattered, he will dance on the wind...
Chickens. Subjected to ordinary sunlight, chickens prospered; left in the dark, they developed rickets and died. Exposed to rays from the quartz window, they grew faster than normally ; their bones became very stout, sometimes so stout that their growth was a positive menace. In a few weeks, by continued use of the rays, it was found possible to develop fabulously succulent small fowls?"superbroilers." When the milk and celery which fed them had been treated with the rays, they thrived better than those whose food had not been so treated...