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...Results. The first publication of the scientists' observations will not be known for some days. It will doubtless be years before conclusions are drawn. Only two months ago were published final conclusions on observations of the eclipse in California...
...Then to you the poorhouse will never beckon, and at your door no wolf will ever howl. Logical, in many ways, is this theory (though it involves faith, hope and occasionally some charity regarding investment trusts and their management) but many a U. S. investor, doggedly individualistic, will doubtless continue to pick his own issues, watch his own ticker and, if necessary, lose his own shirt...
...that the cardinal principle of the Hoover plan had been rejected. Apparently this "news" was taken very ill at the White House. Next day the State Department pointed out that the Litvinov motion had not been voted down but merely tabled on a point of order. The distinction is doubtless important, but the fact remains that no delegate except Red Russia's Litvinov proposed anything remotely approaching an endorsement of the cardinal Hoover point...
Chemical Laboratories are doubtless almost as old as Chemistry herself--or as Alchemy, her ill-favored sister. They must, indeed, have existed in a primitive form in the prehistoric civilizations of India, of Egypt, and of Sumeria. Chemical laboratories as an instrument of teaching and training are a relatively modern institution. Strangely enough the first person, so far as we know, to have appreciated their value for this purpose and to have advocated their use was a President of Harvard College...
Other times, other customs is doubtless the excuse. This tradition takes its place along with the ten thousands that the Divisional and the Reading Period have slain. Some Seniors have survived the first, and have gone; some are suffering the second, and stay; in neither case are there classes to attend, and so, reasons the Senior, there is no need of wearing his regalia. Yet this custom is none of the puerile collegiate tricks to which Harvard long since turned thumbs down; it is a dignified and respected tradition, with a long tale of years behind it. The University, becoming...