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...attempted to force their way into such popular courses as English 2, English 41, Biology 1, or History 7 by signing up for them on their registration cards and subsequently failed in the object of their ambitions will be surprised to learn that so far as the Office is concerned they are and will continue to be in the course, even if they never see the inside of the lecture hall, unless they give the Committee on the Choice of Electives, located in the lower recesses of University Hall, formal notice of their withdrawal...
...religious conflict in England differs totally from the U. S. squabbles over elementary science. English clergymen are amazed when they hear that some Americans object, for example, to the evolutionary theory. They are incredulous when told that U. S. divines predict bodily resurrection despite chemical demonstration of the decay and dissolution of flesh. Englishmen overrode these difficulties 40 years ago. Now their troubles are chiefly two. First, economic: Can one Christian child of God eat caviar when another eats nothing? Second, organic: Is there one true Church? If so, where is it? Who is it? What...
...could be stored in a storage battery it would drive an electric automobile for about five miles or heat an electric iron for a day. By experimenting with artificial lightning of about 2,000,000 volts, it was found that lightning does not always strike the highest object, except when that object is 2.5% or more of the distance from the ground to the cloud. When the height of the object is 1.1% of the distance from the ground to the cloud, the chances of its being hit are about 50-50. Nevertheless, a man standing is 15 times more...
...spread apart, like a duck's, by the solid skin. . . . Even the intelligence common to the higher animals is wanting. The cretins of the 'human plant' kind, as they have been nicknamed, will not recognize mother nor father nor any person about them, nor even a person from an object. . . . Hunger and thirst they manifest by grunts and inarticulate sounds or by screaming...
...ostensible object of the League of Nations is to prevent wars. For years, those who sympathized with the aspirations...