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...series of talks on scientific progress has proved most popular and appropriate, and the speakers have been uniformly excellent. The recitals by Mr. Phelps in the Memorial Church have permitted many music lovers to hear an organist who has a rare talent, even if some still complain about the acoustics. The George Washington program, and the lectures by Mr. Conant, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Cherrington have been varied in appeal and authoritative. Along other lines the industrial and historical excursions under the direction of G. S. Miller have given students, who would not have initiative to explore for themselves...
Mottled teeth mar the mouths of children in more than 100 U. S. localities from Talent, Ore. to Conway, S. C., Dental Surgeon Henry Trendley, Dean of the U. S. Public Health Service stated last week. Oakley became aware of the disfigurement in the early 1920's. Children who lived outside town had good teeth. Dentists Frederick S. McKay of Manhattan and H. B. Smith of Jerome, Idaho, suspected drinking water which Oakley residents secured from new wells in the hills. This water contained six parts of fluorine to the million. Well water on outlying farms, where the children...
...probably worthwhile for the summer school student, prone to behind-the-napkin whispering at the Union on the slowness of service and lack of desert-talent among the cook-force, to ponder on these early battles in the cause of wholesome, 100-percent edible eatables. The first head of the college, the wicked Mr. Eaton mentioned last time, fed his long-suffering students, according to contemporary accounts, "hasty pudding with goat's dung in it, and mackerel served with their guts in them." Before skipping this plainspoken, if indelicate piece of seventeenth-century realism the early prevalence of Hasty pudding...
Author Woodward says, &"The writing of novels is a form of human activity that requires neither knowledge nor experience and only a small amount of native talent, for its successful accomplishment.&" It is not surprising, therefore, that his own novels are not very good. But in spite of its author's cynical bluster and insensitive awkwardness, Evelyn Prentice slowly pulls itself together into a ponderous but dramatic tale...
...Spanish artist's daughter, was comfortably married. She had two children, a luxurious Manhattan house, a nice place in the country, plenty of spending-money from her elderly lawyer husband, John, and a poverty-stricken youth to look back on. She had even inherited a certain amount of talent from her father. But the poor thing was bored. Her husband bored her, and her husband's friends. When Larry Kennard (né Swenson), a Greenwich Village literary racketeer and professional ladies' man, picked her up one day in a hotel lobby, she was thrilled. Author Woodward makes...