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The evolutionary futility of the gradually disappearing lungfish looks to the Anglican priest like a crack in the Divine Plan. Joel does his best to widen the crack by comparing Man's brain to Kamongo's lung, both ingenious developments, neither leading anywhere much. Joel likens life to whirlpools in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queer Fish | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Lending the pictures would be beneficial to the Museum as well as to the students. The illusion that the Fogg Museum should be the isolated habitat of the Fine Arts Department should be destroyed by bringing that institution more into contact with the University at large. As those responsible sincerely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT OF THE FOGG | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Leverett is one of the less well known Houses. It labors under the handicap of a building which is not altogether new. McKinlock Hall, the old Freshman Dormitory, was combined with the newly constructed Mather to complete the unit. But despite this Leverett maintains an attractive and congenial atmosphere. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSES IN OPERATION: LEVERETT | 3/25/1932 | See Source »

"I have a weird theory that the force of thought, a dominant thought, may be strong and powerful enough to be somehow transferred to stone in its receptive state. How this Christ-like figure came to be there, of course I don't know. It is an illusion that grows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wonderful Sanctuary | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

The main theme of his talk is the author's literary career, its rewards & punishments. On this subject he spares no sensibilities, not even his own, minces no words, without malice prepense. He does not hesitate to call a spade a dung-scoop or Pegasus a stallion. Among those writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Fellows' Big Man | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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