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That much abused figure of the past.--the modest-minded individual fresh from a bath who wrapped himself in a blanket before answering the telephone.--is likely to find his precaution a painful necessity if the results of future experiments in wireless photography keep pace with the present. While it is not possible to see by radio, the great advance that is being made in reproducing pictures through the air is shown by last Saturday's achievement, when a photograph transmitted by wireless from Rome was received and reproduced in Bar Harbor forty minutes later and published...
...admire some "he-man" thrashing through the snow at six and a half miles an hour; and quite another to go out and do it as a steady diet. The state of nature is one state permanently barred from the union by common consent. There are too many porcellain bath-tubs and safety-razors in the world today to make primitive life attractive for any length of time to the overwhelming majority of people. Old Adam, senior, alive today, would be the last man to think of living as he was created, battling black flies for an existence, because...
...fling. "G. B. S." has ventured to offer an epic of his own for stage production; why not Keith, or Loew--or even Ziegfeld? The blind poet is in vaudeville--surely a place can be found for the "morning-star" of English poetry in musical comedy; the Wife of Bath has possibilities. Not to mention the enormous advantage all this would be to the Senior of the future, who would surely find as much of literary value in A. H. Woods' "The Return of a Husband" as in the "Odyssey" skimmed through in a day. Something on the order...
...Notta bina.--It is a footnote. F.O.B.--Father of the Order of the Bath...
...Notice: All students in the first and second years of their sojourn here shall be required to bathe their faces and hands each day upon arising; their hands before each repast; and their entire persons once within each seven-day pan. Registration for the bath shall be made in the office of the water-commissioner at least one day in advance. Registration after the bath shall be made at once to the Faculty of Hygiene...