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Those who try to guide their college path along the line of least resistance, find themselves awkwardly balked by the science, requirement and, panic-stricken, choose whatever course has the least laboratory exercise. Others, by nature scientifically inclined, rejoice at the opportunity here for indulging their appetite. Between these two lie a great number who honestly desire a well-rounded cultivation which will include a general acquaintance with the field of science, but who have been forced by the make-up of the science department to limit their acquaintance to a year spent in some specific field. This enforced imprisonment...
...what is still the most graphic and authentic picture of the revolution, as "Ten Days That Shook the World." When Reed went to Moscow in 1920 in disguise (being under indictment as one of the founders of the American Communist Labor Party), Louise Bryant followed him. Reed was stricken with typhus "at his revolutionary post" and died in October, 1921, in his wife's arms...
...coming in response to the invitation of the American Committee for Relief of Russian Children to make a two months' tour of the United States, as representative of the Central Committee of the Rus-sian Red Cross Society. Her purpose is to appeal for aid for the famine stricken orphans of Russia. "Firstly and chiefly," said she, "I want to thank the people of America. . . . We have millions of orphans who need clothes, medicines, education, books - everything - as well as foodstuffs, and Russia is so poor. Then I want to see your new- est schools and hospitals for children...
...Grenfell has several hospitals along the Labrador coast. These hospitals are not self supporting. Few hospitals are," and it is to be expected that these, built in a poverty stricken region, should be dependent on outside...
...enough to stand alone; the situations are such as a better playwright's fingers might itch to lay hold of. In the prologue, Dr. Dillard tries without success to save the life of Ethel's husband. Two years later, Dr. Dillard is a millionaire and Ethel is a poverty-stricken widow, immersed in the memory of her husband. The doctor has discovered that he loves her; but his respect to her devotion to the departed restrains him long from saying the word. At last he is moved to it, and makes a compact with her, whereby...