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...Metropolitan Police. Their function is clear if it be remembered that "London" is a popular misnomer for the "County of London." The County consists of 29 municipal divisions of which one is the "City" and the remaining 28 are Metropolitan Boroughs. Over all extends the activity of the Metropolitan Police, a State police controlled by the Home Secretary who is responsible to Parliament. The Metropolitan Police have headquarters at New Scotland Yard; whereas the "City Police" have headquarters near Guildhall. In the case of the raid described above, the procedure was for the Home Secretary to authorize the Metropolitan Police...
...upon the heels of that announcement, the British Broadcasting Co. sent news over the cables that Sir Henry Wood, ubiquitous concert generalissimo, was to perform a like function for the radio millions of England...
...winter papers have been accepted as more or less of an indication of those which would not be asked in the following spring or at least which would be passed over lightly. Henceforth the June Generals will be the be-all and end-all--as is their proper function...
...days at present; 24 days in the future, by a ruling passed during the present sitting. **There are three main methods by which human beings may be prevented from propagating the species. In the case of Miss Buck, a surgeon will sever the Fallopian tubes, which function as passages from ovaries to womb. This surgical operation is known as salpingotomy. Surgical sterilization of men consists of cutting the spermatic cord, causing atrophy of the testicles. The third method, applicable to both men and women, is X-ray sterilization. As a result of X-ray treatment, organs of reproduction become atrophied...
...Dramatic Club, it is true, has achieved a worthy degree of professional fame as is witnessed by the fact that three of its plays were running simultaneously on Broadway last spring. But the function of the Harvard Dramatic Club would appear to be not only to provide good plays but to provide good plays for Harvard consumption, and admirable as may be its services as a Theatre Guild workshop its first duty is being neglected. The CRIMSON realizes that these plays were deemed artistically worthy by competent judges. But it cannot see what reason has deterred the Club from having...