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Converted to Christianity by a female missionary, a young negress, armed only with her knobkerrie, the African black-jack, and the Bible, sets out through the jungle in search of God. She questions as she meets them: the God of Genesis; a stalwart Roman soldier; Christ himself; St. Peter; Mohammed; Voltaire, who is philosophizing among the jungle people; and finally the sage of Adelphi Terrace; but none give her a satisfactory answer. Christ, she finds "a good-natured fellow who smiled whenever he could" with a low opinion of women. When she found Voltaire digging in his little plot...
...lost articles are turned in at Lehman Hall, where a search is made for possible initials or names, and if found, a postcard is dispatched to the owner, telling him of his loss. In case the owner cannot be found, the article is kept in the basement office for three months, after which it is generally passed on to Phillips Brooks House or some charitable institution...
...conferences are held there. The future astronomer need not be told that the Harvard Observatory is probably the finest place to study the subject. The collection of photographs there is unrivalled anywhere else in the world, and a most competent staff is present to cooperate in the student's search for knowledge. The field is small so that the student can really know not only the tutors, but also the instructors, and they are always willing to help in any problems that may arise...
...tried to be a writer for 24 years. Her first real encouragement came two years ago, when Scribner's printed her long short story "Jacob's Ladder." South Moon Under, with George Bernard Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Search of God (TIME, Feb. 27), is the March choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...bogey-villain. In spite of his destructive wit which many even nowadays call blasphemous. Iconoclast Shaw is a kindly soul; like the light-hearted pessimist, his good nature keeps breaking through. Choleric colonels might take their apoplectic death from reading The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, and the Cambridge (England) public library has barred it, but readers of good-will should find old Author Shaw on their side...