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...novelists: Joyce has used it. Whole books have been written by his imitators (Mr. Aiken, for example) in which the principal character hardly gets a chance to live, so busy is he kept recalling childhood experiences. Mr. O'Hara, in Appointment in Samarra, has employed this technical device to explain the temperament of his hero, Julien English. And here is Victoria Lincoln, following along in what is, by now, a well worn path. Her novel would have suffered little by the omission of Vergil Harris' reveries. I do not contest the truth of the method. I merely suggest that...
Yadama, who has been studying in the United States for two years, will explain the Japanese attitude on the naval ratio question and will compare it to the American Viewpoint as the has seen it during his residence in this country. This is one of several goodwill speeches which Yamada is making at his own expenses at various colleges in the East...
...contention that these men have everything that students formerly enjoyed, there is the fact that the establishment of the Houses has transformed social conditions so utterly that the relative position of those who do not benefit by Mr. Harkness's generosity is much worse. Of course, physical difficulties partially explain their predicament, for in adjusting the number and price of rooms to meet the demand the Bursar's Office inevitably makes some mistakes. As a result some students lose out in the rush for cheaper suites, and others, though they are willing and able to pay well, are likewise neglected...
...would agree with him that chance is ruled out. To rule out other factors he has taken elaborate measures. And whenever possible Dr. Rhine had witnesses present?departmental colleagues, skeptical or friendly, frequently Dr. McDougall himself. He even invited Wallace Lee, a professional magician, to observe some tests and explain the scores if he could. Magician Lee came and observed but did not explain...
...above facts explain," President McConaughy, a tolerant Congregationalist at the head of a tolerant Methodist college, went on to elaborate, "why it is difficult for Wesleyan to place her graduates of the Jewish race in medical schools. It should be apparent that in selecting its freshmen each medical school will feel some degree of responsibility for the graduates of the institution with which it is associated, and it therefore is impelled to accept the promising applicants within its own borders. It is now quite generally admitted that, after that selection has been made, very little room is left for Jewish...