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...combat the disease, there has come into being at Dravrah a class of people of hybrid nature, something between Prophezzors and Satellites, called Shock-Producers, whose function it is to awaken the sleepers. For some reason unintelligible to me the Shock-Producers occupy a relatively unimportant position at present; but their significance seems destined to increase, because they strike at the root of the evil at Dravrah. Their task is tremendous and requires the greatest skill and ingenuity. They must shock the Satellites in such a way as to awaken them without killing them, and in some cases it seems...
...dinner this evening. Each year the Union has held an annual dinner, a social affair attended by the officers of the Union, prominent invited speakers, and all the members who are interested in the Union and value it accordingly. The formal gathering this evening will be a more elaborate function than has yet been held and follows the action of the Harvard Club of Boston, which recently provided its members with such an agreeable opportunity. In arranging such a dinner and in inviting eminent speakers, the officers are to be highly commended, for they are rounding out the program...
...means of electric contacts and restricted passages, Government scientists have discovered that the busy bee really spends most of his time in the hive, instead of performing his function of hymeneal communicant from flower to flower as nature intended. Furthermore, by counting the number of bees and calculating how many trips each one takes during a life-time, the destroyers of popular mythology conclude that each bee does an insignificant amount of work, compared to the noise he makes...
...meet in session until May 14. Delegates from dozens of countries registered. The President and Mrs. Coolidge, the Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg, other Cabinet and Embassy ladies did the honors. Distinguished women, with and without LL.D.'s, were to be seen at every function. Two white-haired matrons were conspicuous by reason of their official positions and the eminence of their services to womankind...
...Employment Office itself is one of the administrative offices of the University and should cooperate very closely with the other administrative offices, particularly with that of the Dean of the College. The director of student employment may conceivably function as an unofficial vocational adviser, and as such could give undergraduates a fairly definite idea of the channels into which they will direct their energies after Commencement...