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...aesthetes, 1933 model. His innovation in method places him in Proust's debt, if in anybody's, since the book is an attempt to remember things past, and to recapture their essence. The author muses on life in a German Lutheran minister's household, situated in a German settlement in New York State. The life that is led there is not melodramatic, and is quite devoid of any pretense to greatness as commonly conceived. Yet each little incident, in itself hardly of vast importance, is worked into a pattern or mosaic which, as a unity, has meaning and significance...
Another interesting fact in the history of Harvard is that after the settlement of John Hancock's estate, that worthy gentleman, who graduated in 1754, and was a former treasurer of the corporation, still owed $526 to the college. According to Reverend Carroll Perry of Ipswich, who wrote an essay on Hancock, the latter was also very unsatisfactory in his administration of his alma mater's finances, and the result was that Hancock's reputation as patriot and statesman has suffered with many people. However, the Reverend Perry attributed this unsatisfactory administration to the fact that Hancock, during his stewardship...
...that he cannot now be deterred. His present position demands a period of loud shouting and of anxious waiting--awaiting a time when the powers will agree to ask him back to Geneva, with appropriate minor concessions. In effect this election is Germany's last call for a peaceful settlement. Pollux is inclined to be pessimistic about this matter, and to predict an "un-moneyed, simple conflict" comparable to the Thirty Years' War. I am inclined to agree...
Into President Roosevelt's office last week were ushered two Britons whose patience had been sorely tried: Sir Frederick Leith-Ross and Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Ever since Sir Frederick arrived five weeks ago to talk about settlement of Britain's War Debt to the U. S. ($4,500,000,000), the President and his Treasury officials had been up to their ears in domestic affairs. A few half-hours snatched from Acting Secretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson's crowded schedule were about all Sir Frederick, cooling his heels in the British Embassy, had to show...
Trypan-blue has been used to kill the spindly, boring animalcules (trypanosomes) which cause sleeping sickness. It is also useful to kill the microbes of malaria. In the Federated Malay States, at the Sungei Buloh leper settlement Dr. Gordon A. Ryrie discovered that the blue trypan dye attacked the fatty bacilli present in leprosy and tuberculosis (the forms of the diseases are related). Other investigators confirmed Dr. Ryrie's work, among them cautious Dr. Heiser...