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...meeting of the Pierian Sodality on Monday, twenty-six new members were elected to the century old organization. Eighteen of the newly elected are Freshmen...
...Thames from Westminster to Greenwich, famed for fried whitebait and the o° meridian. Queen Elizabeth wore fawn, King George the tight tail coat of an Admiral of the Fleet. Ocean liners, tramps and tugs were aflutter with bunting, and crowds stood six deep along the quay-sides. Eighteen years ago when King George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen. George VI last week used a 300-h.p. green motor launch (later to serve as Admiral's barge for Admiral Sir Edward Evans, commander-in-chief...
...this it is necessary to execute work in dormitories, class rooms and elsewhere during term time. To date, I am happy to say that we have obtained the consent of sufficient men in Winthrop House and elsewhere to redecorate while they are in residence, to keep some eighteen men busy during the winter and spring who would probably otherwise have been unemployed. Next year we expect to considerably better this record...
...rioting students of Harvard and Technology doubtless expect easy indulgence. They think the public should say, "Oh, well, it's all in fun. It's just a way of reducing spring fever. Kindly remember we're still children at eighteen or twenty...
...Mannose is notable for the wide variety of taste reactions which it causes. Dr. Blakeslee gave one tablet to each of the 45 members of the American Philosophical Society assembled before him. At a signal, all the savants raised their hands in unison, put the tablets in their mouths. Eighteen reported a sweet taste. Others said it was bitter, some said it was both sweet and bitter, still others could detect no taste at all. Dr. Blakeslee declared his belief that differences of taste among human beings are inborn...