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...badinage across a tea-table were carried on in black and white; if ivory tablets were provided for the composition of mots in pencil, would the written small-talk charm? Would it scintillate and glitter? No, thought the editors of the Harvard Crimson (undergraduate daily). To test the well-known fact that a woman's wit is quenched by the sight of a sheet of paper like a candle by a wet snuffer, they last week invited the girls of Radcliffe College to contribute to their humorous column, The Crime...
...game and even then such are the fallacies due to the well-known principles of rationalizing and compensating, that a very precise questionnaire by experts is necessary to elicit reliable facts. Too much feeling enters into the question to settle if off hand by superficial questioning. The best test is behavior...
...When, as a matter of curiosity and to test my theory, I called attention to the fine playing of Dartmouth and suggested that that was enjoyable and well worth seeing, the silence and looks of astonishment on the faces of the Harvard 'grads' were most illuminating. What manner of man was I?, there looks seemed...
Commandant Billard admitted that the Coast Guard would encounter a severe test in keeping New York and other ports dry this winter. He declared, however, that the Coast Guard was ready to take up the Christmas challenge of the liquor ships and that a new 100-foot patrol boat was due to arrive in New York during this week. A dozen more are expected from the Great Lakes region, and will be brought through the Erie Canal before the ice forms...
...vibration of traffic in Manhattan, even at dead of night, is sufficient to disturb so delicate an instrument. The test of Einstein's theory will be made "somewhere in Illinois." Thereafter, Prof. Hartsough will enlarge his scales and attempt to weigh molecules and atoms; and will consider commercial offers from people eager to try his instruments (he has made three) in locating oil and minerals...