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...portraits which make of the subjects not text-book gods but living men who were great because they saw and recorded. Especially note wentily is Dr. Haggard's all too brief section on primitive societies and the status of medicine therein. The book is devoid of technicalities which might disturb the lay reader it is written in an animated and vigorous style which is not without its humorous touches. If will be of especial interest to those who anticipate entrance into the profession but it has much to offer anybody interested in the development of man and his most vital...
Suppose you had taken refuge from some pursuing calamity in a big metropolitan department store, and by some strange chance found it completely deserted. Suppose that for days on end nobody came to disturb you, as though no one but yourself were left in the world. And then suppose that one day you discovered that you were not quite alone after all, that somebody else was in the store too. These are the presumptions Author Cozzens makes the reader swallow. Once they are accepted, the rest of the circumstantial tale follows as nightmare the daydream. Able Author Cozzens always takes...
...Cornell received a 620-acre wildwood near Ithaca for use as a field laboratory, accepting the donors' provision that man's hand shall never dredge or dam its streams, quarry its rocks, disturb the birth, growth, death and decay of any living thing within its boundaries...
Refusing to be catalogued and classified as "a nice lot and bright," "meek," "Bohemian," "hearty and robust," and "swanky," the college girls retort with epithets and descriptions frank enough to disturb the most indifferent men. How disillusioned and perplexed must be the Freshmen who discovers a stupid Radcliffe lass or a Bohemian Wellesleyian. What tragedy and grief to find the Guide had erred. His weighty problem still unsolved where can he turn for guidance and initiation? The dank silence of his lonely room give forth no answer and his brooding only lessens his faith in humankind. Most miserable...
...sliced, comes up to the fact that the Administration had better look to its laurels. The nation as a whole is not yet actively arrayed against Mr. Roosevelt's plans, but his 70 per cent majority of last spring has shifted to an even balance, fearfully easy to disturb, as Congressional elections come in view...