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...easily course work can accumulate, and lucky is that undergraduate who has escaped the horrors of the cramming procedure which ensues when the day of reckoning looms. The routine of frantic review, late hours, neglect of exercise, tension, gloom, and the search for stimulants is a familiar if unwelcome specter. And the search for stimulants has not been fruitless. Last spring the resort to benzedrine was momentarily popular until "debunked" as habit-forming. This spring the answer seems to be caffein pills, which, it is claimed, are some ambrosian and utopian pick-me-ups which do every thing they should...
...SPECTER-Maxim Gorki-Appleton-Century...
...cause, a code of belief, a philosophy. Samghim's story was carried on-in so far as it moved at all-in The Magnet and Other Fires. Last week the fourth and last volume, left unfinished by Gorki at his death in 1936. was published as The Specter, showed Samghim just as irresolute as he had been in the preceding 2,000 pages...
...Gorki wanted to write 2,700 pages about this dull and will-less man is almost as great a mystery as the Moscow trials that disclosed a fantastic story of Gorki's death.* The Specter begins with Samghim feebly awakened by an interest in a bold, mysterious client, Marina Zotova, who is mixed up in some shady negotiations over the sale of property in the Urals. But soon after they meet in Paris she is murdered, and suspicion of him in his home town drives him to Moscow. His wife, from whom he has been separated for years, dies...
...research," simply side-stepping the other questions. Budgetary problems and the trend to social sciences are closely related, for History, Government, and Economics in particular, and English to some degree, are Harvard's most crowded fields and promise to continue their growth. In these departments, too, the twin specter exists of a large group of young instructors eager to advance and of limited, permanent top faculty positions filled in large measure with young men. Further, as the report itself points out, University financial statements reveal that a "frozen" budget may be expected for some years, thus destroying the hope...