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...goggles and a snakebite outfit. The goggles are for protection against the deadly ringhals, which not only bites but spits venom six feet with tobacco-chewer's accuracy. Two of the men have been hit in the eye by ringhals (bathing the eyes with milk is a sure cure); all have been bitten at one time or another. They take lightly the threatening antics of the puff adder, but have plenty of respect for the swift black mamba, most dreaded of Af rican snakes, whose bite can kill in five minutes...
...darkening of the soul whose opposite and whose one cure is "the darkness...
...many a U.S. golf club to close its links before summer ends. One middle-aged addict who wants to prevent this is Walter Prichard Eaton, Yale Drama Associate Professor, who has roamed U.S. fairways for nearly 50 years. In this month's Atlantic Monthly Professor Eaton hazarded a cure: ". . . All we have to do is buy a flock of sheep. They know that already in England...
...professor of pathology at Cornell's Medical School (1899-1932); in Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, which he directed from 1913 to 1939. He published his land mark cancer text, Neoplastic Diseases, in 1919, after 20 years of tireless, neuralgia-racked labor. He believed in no universal cancer cure, plugged research, early diagnosis...
...looking for a basic, speeded curriculum; St. Johns does it with "great books"; Columbia and other colleges experiment with broad introductory courses. There have been periodic shifts from area to area, with the humanities losing first to social and then to natural sciences. There have been vogues of cure-alls--"social psychology," "philosophical science." The war has pointed up these sicknesses. And now at Harvard several committees are at work to study the case of the "irrelevant" liberal arts, and to plan, during the war's hiatus, a revitalization...