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Some of the most flagrant violations of ethical tutoring here at Harvard arise from commercialization. Granted that these practices amount to cheating, the worst kind of cut-throat competition among the tutors results in making these ever more dubious. Each tutor must go his rival one better...
...traffic court for illegal parking, Henry Worthington Armstrong,* who in 1903 composed the music for Sweet Adeline (original title: Sweet Rosalie), was asked by Magistrate Richard McKiniry to sing the ballad's seldom-heard verse (what every crooner knows is merely the chorus). Composer Armstrong cleared his throat, sang, "In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming . . ." was shortly interrupted by the critical magistrate: "I ought to fine you for your singing, but I won't. Sentence suspended...
When she was two years old, Mrs. Agnes Gregory of Kansas City swallowed some lye, seared the delicate lining of her throat and gullet. The painful burns healed, but new scar tissue gradually filled in the passage to her stomach. After about 25 years, her gullet was so constricted that Mrs. Gregory could swallow only liquids. After 30 years she could swallow nothing...
Last fortnight, on a hunch, an unnamed physician at General Hospital tried a simple kindergarten game on Mrs. Gregory. He knotted the end of a fine steel wire, gently pushed it down her throat into her stomach. On the wire he threaded a tiny steel bead, no larger than a grain of wheat, which he propelled down Mrs. Gregory's throat with a small steel spring. The next bead was a little larger. After half a dozen graduated beads had gone down the wire, and forced a narrow opening in Mrs. Gregory's food passage, the doctor pulled...
Lately all he had left were his memories. Last week he no longer needed the $100 a month which the estate of J. P. Morgan Sr. had been sending him: at the Home for Incurables, cancer of the throat brought death to 78-year-old Pliny Fisk...