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...Freshman squad is to have the use of the Arena for a short time two afternoons a week, the first practice there being tomorrow. In this way the coaches will have a chance to develop the team more rapidly than in the previous years when weather conditions have prevented work on the Charlesbank rinks...
...Negro child brought up in Europe bleaches perceptibly, and descendants of such transplanted Negroes take on the skin color, skull dimensions, straight hair of white men, while Europeans living in Africa develop in the reverse direction...
...Eugenics, which seeks to improve the race negatively by the elimination of 'defective germ plasm and the selection of superior parents, will be supplanted by the positive or "euthenic" element of building up and strengthening good traits and dispositions in the individual. Thus a race of supermen will develop naturally from normal parents...
...trick-about a tablespoonful in an air-tight chamber containing 27 cubic feet, or a cubic centimeter injected into the stem. The method is most successful with woody plants like the rose or lilac. All the latent buds or shoots are stimulated, instead of the few preponderant ones which develop naturally. This may lead to great economy in the cultivation of tuberous plants, such as dahlias and potatoes. Plants could be grown from small pieces of the tubers, etherized. There is apparently no depression on plant life like the after-effects of ether on animal life...
...times to overshadow its parent body. When such a condition is carried too far it becomes dangerous; power and responsibility are no longer in the same hands. But there have been signs recently that the Athletic Committee for one is determined not to allow such a condition to develop, that it realizes that ultimately all responsibility for major decisions rest on its shoulders and that the sub-committees can do nothing of wide importance without its considered study and approval. The latest action is doubly significant--significant first in that, unlike some important decisions of the past, this decision...