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...provided a field day for textual emendators. In Macbeth's famous remark, "My way of life/Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf," Houseman has adopted Dr. Johnson's emendation of "May" for "way." In the same speech, the Folio offers, "This push/Will cheere me ever, or dis-eate me now." Among the conjectures are "disease," "disseize," "defeat," and "dis-ease." I myself like to understand "chair" (which was pronounced "cheer" then), with which "disseat" makes perfect sense. Houseman too settles on "chair" but follows it up with "unseat," which is obviously not acceptable. But let me spare...
...them here. Accelerating, making up deficiencies, enduring the martyrdom of 34 hours a week of Chem 20--these are some things that keep Harvard students at Harvard Summer School. And for the others, whose own colleges may or may not have summer schools but undoubtedly accept Harvard credits, Harvard dis--well, Harvard...
...naturally endowed harbor-and the Genoese even let that fall into disrepair. In the 1930s, the city qualified as Southern Europe's leading port only because Benito Mussolini deliberately diverted shipping from Naples and Venice to keep Genoa's tonnage ahead of archrival Marseille. Once Mussolini was dis patched, Genoa's troubles emerged for all to see. Hemmed in by the Apennines with little room to expand, its harbor area is a cramped compound of 1,000-year-old streets and hopelessly antiquated facilities. Operations are further hampered by some of the world's slowest-footed...
Nationwide, the N.C.D.C.'s figures show only about one-third as many measles cases so far in the current dis ease year as at this time a year ago. That is a good start. "It's unprecedented in the history of preventive medicine to try to eradicate an entire disease in one year," says Dr. Dull, "but there is good reason to believe it can be done...
...state of uncertainty" at the university. Speaker Unruh, who the day before had implicitly rejected Kerr's admissions freeze, declared that it set "a very dangerous precedent" to fire a president when an incoming Governor takes over. University officials, however, feared that the blunt manner of his dis missal would have an adverse effect on faculty recruiting. At some campuses, student organizations that less than a year ago were ready to demonstrate for Kerr's dismissal, made plans to demonstrate on his behalf. Campus leaders warned that the regents' action was a preliminary to a further crackdown...