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...tutor. In this connection it is highly significant to compare the Department of History and Literature with, let us say, the Department of English. Not every student who may wish to do so is allowed to concentrate in History and Literature. The Department limits the number of its concentrators, selecting only the best candidates, and the effectiveness of tutoring in History and Literature is common knowledge. English, on the other hand, is a subject which many students select for concentration merely because they have no special interest in any other field. Hence this Department is burdened with large numbers...
Entomologist Frank Eugene Lutz of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History has discovered that bees can see ultraviolet light. If the bee's food receptacle is labeled with a card painted ultraviolet-white, the bee will soon learn to select that card among plain white cards which to the human eye seem indistinguishable from the one selected. No entomologist would use this visual faculty to lure to destruction the useful honey bee. But in Lafayette, Ind., scientists of Purdue University pondered ways of coping with the codling moth', a mottled, foreshortened little creature whose larvae develop...
...Dead-bones had over twenty rushees there that night. Fellows who were outstanding. Denham, the school editor. Starns, an honor man. "Brute" H o w e l l, Swanson's triple-threat star. Dead-bones was a select crowd...
...courses lie open to the Committee. It can step outside of the present coaching ranks and bring in a newcomer as the guiding light of the Crimson's football forces next fall. Or it can select one of the men who have served under Casey in a subordinate position. Those are the alternative solutions...
Twenty months ago Lord Linlithgow assumed chairmanship of Parliament's Joint Select India Committee: 16 members of the House of Lords, including a onetime Viceroy (the Marquess of Reading), and the Archbishop of Canterbury; and 16 members of the House of Commons, including Sir Austen Chamberlain and Laborite Miss Mary Pickford, who has since died. Their duty was to tie up the loose ends left by seven years of plodding British efforts to find for India a more liberal but not too liberal status...