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...first few pages of "John Galsworthy" give evidence of serious "introduction trouble," an ill not uncommon among thesis writers. These pages say very turgidly much that there is no need to say, and thus becloud the necessary paragraphs. It would be unfortunate, though, if they should keep anyone from reading this otherwise admirable study...
Next day the pressure of the Press drew a statement from Dr. Dandy, who, like every reputable physician, hates to have his private practice dragged out into the limelight. Said Dr. Dandy: "The condition is dangerous and not uncommon, but is not necessarily immediately fatal. There is a continual flow of spinal fluid into the brain cavity, and hydrocephalus is caused when there is an obstruction, bringing about a backing up of the fluid in the brain cavity. We will have to operate to form a by-pass to allow resumption of the free flow of the fluid. Such...
...student's mind. Although his lectures are well filled with specific facts, Mr. Doolin has an enlightening habit of slipping in salient generalizations at the critical moment. His ability to put across the basic principles of an age or a series of events is developed to an extent uncommon in courses open to undergraduates...
...unfortunate effects. Those students who do the work conscientiously, assimilating the material thoroughly and receiving a good mark, are forced either to neglect their other courses or to spend so much time on their various studies that they become, in the purest sense, grinds. It is not at all uncommon to find men who are taking two heavy laboratory courses, a Physics course with a reasonable laboratory, period, and some reading course for distribution; such an individual will spend his mornings rushing from the lab to a lecture and back; he will eat his box lunch in Mallinckrodt, where...
...behaved since last March in such a manner as to convict themselves either of the desire to go to war or of a stupendous inability to chart their own course. For the essentials of their propaganda are capable of no other interpretation, and that propaganda they have brewed with uncommon energy and ability, leaving no page in the book of mob inflammation unturned, no trick in the militarist deck unplayed. M. Daladier has been an apt pupil, and the guerre de revanche, seemingly moribund, has blossomed beneath his hand. The great obstacle is economic expediency, but Lloyd's are willing...