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...last week French Justice was avenged, when smart Mr. & Mrs. Beck applied for a Paris divorce. They were told that their mode of life did not constitute a "fixed residence," and that at least one of them would have to reside ashore for at least six months before they could apply for a French divorce...
...Crimson against the Red and Blue there were enough potential receivers scattered about the field to reveal the foundations of a sound and workable pass offense. But a lack of finish, a tendency on the part of the receiver to fight the ball, spoiled the effectiveness of this mode of gaining ground. With greater attention to detail, the Harvard passing game should become a threat against the Blue of Yale...
Typhus is one disease whose mode of transmission he discovered and whose way of prevention he invented. The germ breeds in the bodies of lice. One louse infects others. The community bite their human or animal host and into the bloody puncture slip the typhus organisms. Dr. Nicolle developed a vaccine from the blood of infected monkeys. Injected into humans it immunizes them. Its spreading use promises to wipe out typhus as a plague...
Tonight occurs the fourth of the concerts given by the Freshman Players, an organization to be welcomed at a time when classical music is deriving too little active undergraduate support. Although having its origin in the College employment office, it offers an unusually satisfactory mode of helping a few men over the financial obstacles of higher education. Certainly more attractive superficially than the usual student positions which involve the climbing of innumerable staircases or the washing of many dishes, the orchestra also offers training in an art which is valuable both financially and esthetically in after life...
...short of artistic execution, but Mrs. Woolf is a craftsman of great skill. The mechanics of sex-transformation and passage of time are deftly, almost blandly, subordinated to the phenomenon of one and the same temperament reacting to the characteristics of disparate ages. Orlando is influenced by each new mode, but vivid memories give him (her) a dispassionate perspective. The sweep of generations offers every opportunity for satiric commentary; the experience of both sexes an admirable occasion for comparison. Mrs. Woolf seizes opportunity and occasion...