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...does not seem to have any particular secretion like other ductless glands, its value to the body is not well understood. In unborn children its chief duty seems to be to help make red blood cells. Destroying worn-out and useless blood cells seems to be its prime function after birth. It may be cut out with apparently only transient inconvenience to the person. When ruptured it must come out quickly...
...from a desire for martyrdom or from a stupid obstinacy, but from the genuine belief which he shared with Wilson that public opinion is not a static condition but that it is a thing alive and growing, capable of response to stimulation and direction of public leaders. Thus the function of men who aspire to be statesmen in a democracy is not to sit idly by while fortuitous circumstances sweep public opinion this way and that and then place themselves placidly in accord with every chance fluctuation, but rather it is their duty to participate actively in the conscious formation...
...Plan, the architects made skilful use of two circles, of unequal size, and an oval, to conceal through optical illusion the fact that the room, following the plot of ground on which it is built, is a trapezoid. The Junior Common Room, while too small for any large House function, offers a pleasant gathering place for after dinner coffee and the various talks which have been given. Set apart from the students is the Senior Common room which justifies its existence as a cloak room for the Tutors...
Modern architecture in Europe has reached a definition of style through the work of three leaders, Le Corbusiner in Paris, Ouid in Rotterdam, and Mies Van der Rohe in Berlin. In the last decade their style has become international. The design depends principally upon the function which the building is created to serve, with no consideration for the traditional principles of symmetry. The second feature is that modern architecture employs almost exclusively the new building materials, concrete, glass, and steel. The beauty of the style rests in the free composition of volumes and surfaces; the adjustment of such elements...
...annual dinner which usually closes the work of the Legal Aid Bureau will be held this year at the University Club, Boston, Wednesday evening, April 6, at 7.30 o'clock. The Bureau will continue to function under the present system until June 1, when the other members of the law school will take up the work for the summer both at 22 Gannett House and at the Central Square Branch. An increased use of the Bureau has caused this change...