Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South American snakes, present for Raymond Lee Ditmarks, curator of reptiles at the New York Zoological Park. Dr. Ditmarks fondly sorted the snakes. As he was doing so, Dr. Adolph Monaelesser, retired Manhattan physician, visited him. Dr. Monaelesser was President McKinley's surgeon of the Red Cross during the Spanish-American War. Lately he has been doing private research on epilepsy. His visit to the zoo was for some venom of the black African cobra. Dr. Ditmarks has the only one in the U. S. It is a peculiar snake, for it squirts its venom at its prey...
...most important of these social obstacles arises from the initial necessity of an arbitrary allotment of students to form the various groups or "houses." It is the purpose of the Harvard authorities, probably a wise one, to make each "house" a cross-section in personnel of the college as a whole. Their selection of the men who are to live together will, therefore, cut across the grooves in which undergraduate social life naturally flows. This poses the question whether as a result there can be any real cohesion within the new groupings, without which, it is plain, they will fail...
According to official announcement each of the new Houses will contain an approximate cross section of the college. That is each House will have its fair share of the athletic and the academic, of the literary, the scientific, and the historical. Diversity rather than unity of interest among the occupants of a House will thus be the guiding...
...been less than a year in the new world, was unquestioned hero. With covert glances the girls admired his broad shoulders and deep chest, remembering how, with a shout, he had slipped up from the deeps of Spring Bayou, holding high in his hand the dripping bronze cross...
...promised to present no opera in Manhattan for ten years. The nucleus of his troupe went to Chicago, developed into the Chicago Civic Opera of today, an organization devoted to Italian and French opera. The Metropolitan, unmolested, has stayed Italian and German. The paths of the two never cross. No new group has risen to threaten them. Wagner, thus, in the U. S. has stayed the prerogative of the Metropolitan. It has been given as the management believes the public wants it-cut and trimmed to make a comfortable afternoon or evening. But many an operagoer has been dissatisfied with...