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...breakfast toast free of charge, and is left to enjoy himself pretty much as he will. He may take any attitude toward his position, considering it a comfortable, comparatively inactive, monkish life; or he may realize all its possibilities, mingling with students, pouring a few ideas into the impressionable void. For the best resident tutors, men who take the second attitude, the future holds little. Being a good fellow, drinking cocktails adolescents, does not write books, further research, or win a professorial chair. The slender stipend does not mount into a fortune which allows marriage or retirement, and the pleasure...
...Binghamton, N. Y.. Supreme Court Justice Andrew J. McNaught granted a divorce to Catherine Koppe from Lillian Beaumont on the ground that, since the partners were both female, the marriage was void. In March 1927, wearing a clown costume, a man's wig and a van dyke beard. Lillian ("William") Beaumont appeared with Catherine Koppe before the Rev. Francis T. Cooke, saying they had just come from a masquerade, wanted to be married. He obliged...
...join any club or that he will not join any other club, and any such pledge or promise, whether originating in misunderstanding or otherwise, shall not be binding upon such undergraduates or upon any of the said clubs agreeing thereto, but shall be regarded by everybody as null and void and contrary to the spirit of this agreement...
...election Nov. 8. Through his onetime law partner and a nominal plaintiff, Mayor McKee went to court to void the Board's order, hold his job until Jan. 1, 1934. At stake was the question of whether the Mayor's office was legally vacant. Mayor McKee said he wanted to save the city the expense of a special election...
...accurate-only that Earth's lower atmosphere impedes the cosmic rays of their arrival from some source off Earth. It does not show what that source is-whether the rays originate from the destruction of matter in the stars (Jeans theory) or from creation of matter in the void between stars (Millikan theory). Certain aspects of cosmic rays suggest that they may be the newly recognized neutrons. Or they may be electrons drifting down from the heavily ionized, pulsating casing called the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer which at a distance of 100 mi. or so encloses Earth as a shell...