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...story begins a little slowly in the shabby dwelling of Jess Oakroyd, a carpenter and joiner out of a job; but it doesn't take long to start Jess on the highway in search of adventure and employment. This deliciously slow provincial Englishman, with his aromatic pipe and pungent quips, wanders into a troup of third-rate travelling players and becomes their stage carpenter and jack-of-all-trades. But besides propping up scenery for the troupe, he sustains the whole show for the Boston audience. The troupe has been further augmented by Young Love, male and female. And when...
...twins doubted the California organization's favorable judgment of their mentality, the Institute for Juvenile Re-search in Chicago substantiated the assurance. Louis Leon Thurstone and Richard L. Jenkins, who compiled the Chicago institute's facts, went further in destroying old taunts. Twins of the same sex are fully as bright as twins of opposite sexes...
...Justius Buck of University of Pittsburgh, viewing with alarm the fact that "tons of history" are being swept up from the floor of U. S. libraries every day, urged the American Council of Learned Societies, meeting in Minneapolis, to consider the need for preserving newspaper files as invaluable re-search material...
Adrift in the sandy flats of the Wallaby Islands off the coast of Australia searching for strange reptiles, Dr. G. M. Allen '01, Associate Professor and Curator of Mammals at the University Museum, and William Schevill, graduate research worker, describe their experiences as members of the expedition to Australia of the Museum of Comparative Zoology in letters to the department. The expedition, which is under the direction of Professor W. M. Wheeler, left this country on July 25 last year. Excerpts follow, telling of a trip made by Dr. Allen and Schevill to a little-visited coral island...
...have had a suggestion offered some time ago that might be of value to Senator Fess in his search for funds with which to build his home (TIME, Sept...