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Harvard has always been a target for those opponents of static scholarship, who deplore the tendency of our older Universities to bury themselves in a ceaseless effort to cast new light on the art of past ages, and fail to recognize and foster the growth of contemporary art forms within their own walls. It is encouraging, therefore, to watch the growth within the University of two such groups as the Harvard Film Society and the Cinema Guild, concerned with the advancement of one of these forms...
...cheers of the galleries, the goaltender, encased in 25 lb. of pads, is grimly occupied with the job of making saves. If one of his teammates makes a slip, it is too bad, but if a goalie makes a slip, it is a score against him and his team. Target of whizzing pucks, he must be nimble as a squirrel, sharp-eyed as a hawk. And since a perfect performance for him is a shutout, he works for naught on the scoreboard...
...last week that all during the Japanese siege of Shanghai, defending Chinese troops complained that her planes rarely ventured to bomb the Japanese in daylight, bombed them only ineffectively at night, failed to sink or score a direct hit on the Japanese flagship Idzumo which lay anchored a fair target in the Whangpoo, week after week...
They also found that often when the stroke comes from above, the presence of the charge in the air creates by induction an opposite charge in the target, and before the leader completes its course the target may emit upward streamers to meet the leader and guide it home...
...Chief target of anti-Japanese boycotts is raw silk, which makes up over half of Japan's exports to the U. S., and supplies 92% of the silk used here. Recently Manhattan boycotters staged an "anti-silk parade" and last week students from 150 universities danced in the snow around a bonfire on the Vassar College campus feeding silk stockings and ties to the flames...