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...Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy a divorce from Bess for a dollar and a half; the marvelous scenes of a score of bodies swaying in rhythm as they chant for the dead; these are local color of the highest grade, but they are also integral parts of the play...
...connected with some of the courses leaves the student little time for thought and consideration of some of the more significant phases of study. Under the new plan the first year will continue to be a period of basic instruction with required courses for all students; men of distinction grade will then be eligible to drop most of their course work and devote themselves to their own branch of study...
Masquerading as ink, paint, olive oil and other prosaic commodities, shipments of high-grade liquor used to proceed to one Alfred E. Norris, Manhattan broker, from one Joel D. Kerper, Philadelphia 'legger. When the U. S. penetrated the shipments' disguises, Broker Norris and 'Legger Kerper were tried in Philadelphia. District, Judge William Huntington Kirkpatrick sentenced the 'Legger to 15 months at Atlanta and a $20,000 fine. Broker Norris was fined $200 on the ground that, though the act of purchasing liquor is not prohibited, yet the act of purchasing aids and abets the prohibited transportation...
There will be a Fire Drill in three minutes, children. The Eighth Grade will form in two orderly lines in front of Escape 16. . . . Good morning, pupils. Attention. Stand. Now the morning calisthenics will begin. . . . Will Charles Robbins, Room number Nine, please report to the Principal's office. . . . Charles Robbins...
Three other newcomers are in Cambridge for the opening of Harvard's courses in Naval Science, Lieutenant W. E. Mackay, Lieutenant R. W. Berry, and Lieutenant, Junior Grade, R. B. McRight. Lieutenant Mackay was attached to bases in Ireland and France during the World War. He has seen service in the Philippines and China, and served tours of duty at the U. S. Naval Academy and the Naval War College...