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...Simon Flexner believes "we have a perfect right to believe that with our pres-ent knowledge of the manner in which the microbes of the disease behave, the aim of immunization will be accomplished...
...several days before the eventful evening, influential, albeit slightly bored Seniors canvassed the dormitories for recruits; lethargic meetings were held, resolutions passed, and a few ambitious first-year men scoured the city for red lights. When the big night arrived, only a handful of upper-classmen were pres- ent, a group so small that the gathering would have been a complete failure had it not been for the presence of the whole Freshman Class, which had turned out en masse for their first--and last--college football rally. The members of the team, grouped together like so many rubber plants...
Conscientiously the English correspond ent of the London Morning Post filed an objective report of Futurist Marinetti's doings, added his personal conviction : "No man or movement can unwind spaghetti from the heart of Italy...
...disguises for myself so that I can go to picture galleries and look . . . and think. . . ." Impressionism permanently affected him. His subjects were usually nobodies of all nationalities. From the age of 33, when the Luxem bourg purchased his cityscape La Neige, Artist Henri's reputation vaulted, his tal ent ripened slowly, continuously. He taught in Philadelphia, Paris, New York. His later years were spent at Manhattan's Art Students League, where hun dreds of students learned that this man with the sensitive Gallic features and wide-set, almost almond eyes, could stimu late their vision and would carefully...
...without loud complaint had the House tariff-makers ceased their activities with Schedule VII (Agricultural Products). But tariff-making is the oldest U. S. political game next to taxation. Every U. S. producer claims special consideration, paints a terrifying picture of his ruin by cheap foreign competition. Under insist ent pressure, the Ways & Means Com mittee as usual broke, gave ground, widened tariff revision to include many a nonagricultural product. It was these other increases which chiefly distressed the farmer...