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...Student Union. The official report of firing practices by Harvard units on the U.S.S. Wyoming states that the firing training "was basically sound--this conclusion is verified by the fact that the practice was fired without casualties to material or personnel." The report from U.S.S. Leary of July 9th, 1940, in this regard, remarks, "Harvard R.O.T.C juniors art in general well versed and capable in firing 4-inch guns...
...Said a high-nosed Morgan Library attendant: "I suppose it's a very good idea, at a time when human beings are acting so savagely, to show records of the behavior of animals." From its richly laden shelves, librarians had taken down the Morgan Library's best 9th to 19th-Century bestiaries, travel books, mythologies, collected fables, lives of animal-loving saints, set their animal pictures under glass for the public. Daniels and St. Jeromes fondled lions in their dens, St. Georges slew dragons by the lanceful; behemoths, leviathans out of Job and seven-headed monsters...
Medieval Arabian physicians foreshadowed Boston's famed Dr. Stanley Cobb in believing that much of arthritis is psychological. In the 9th Century, the great physician Rhazes attended an emir who was so badly crippled that he could not walk. First Rhazes ordered the emir's best horse to be saddled and brought into the court yard. Rhazes gave the emir hot showers and a stiff drink. Then, brandishing a knife, he cursed his patient, threatened to kill him. Furious, the crippled man sprang to his feet. With his patient hot on his trail, the doctor leaped...
When the good people of Cambridge go to the polls tomorrow, the choice of a Presidential candidate is bound to be foremost in their minds. But with Congress still making the laws of the country, they have another decision quite as important in the selection of Representative for the 9th District. And the lines of the latter contest are by far the most clearly drawn; the choice is between Tom Eliot and Robert Luce, between a progressive and a dic-hard, between a philosophy of government geared to the needs of today and one suited to the problems of fifty...
...graduate of Harvard Law School, one of the three men who wrote the Social Security Act, once general counsel for the Labor Department, Tom Eliot has resigned from his latest post as Regional Director of the Wages and Hours Division to bring the representation of the 9th District up to date. His views are those of the relief and reform measures passed by the present administration. But he is not a rubber-stamp, not a coat-tail rider. He is a man of independent and forward-looking mind, the type for which there is a need in the national legislative...