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Suggestions by Robert Bacon '18, formerly Assistant Dean of the University and now Dean of St. John's College in Maryland, have resulted in completely changing the curriculum at that college, according to a recent report from there. Where formerly incoming Freshmen found their curriculum mapped out for them, under the new plan they are restricted only to taking three courses in divisions other than their field of main interest. Furthermore, all general college curriculum requirements have been abolished except that of a course in English composition. New emphasis is now being placed upon the requirements of the department...
...spite of the unusual nature of the main item on the business of the meeting there was found time to hold the annual election of officers. G. W. Harrington '30 was chosen president of the Council for the coming year. J. K. Hurd '30 was elected vice-president, and S. G. Silverman '30 was chosen secretary...
Body cells affected by tuberculosis bacilli contain a certain fatty acid. The Sterling laboratory at Yale has been isolating that acid and the Rockefeller Institute has been experimenting with it. Dr. Sabin, with fingers strong but gentle, has been injecting the acid into laboratory animals. She has found that it induces reactions similar to tuberculosis and may be the substance which really causes tubercles to grow. If so, a specific treatment may be evolved...
...Chicago Evening Post the best thing of its kind in the Midwest; went to The New Republic to do books, resigned in 1922 to write books of his own?several historical-sociological works, one so-so novel (That Nice Young Couple), and now Henry the Eighth. He has found his work. Royalties on more than 100,000 copies of Henry are beginning to pour in upon Biographer Hackett, now at his home in Duncannon, Ireland...
...himself in a strangely ambiguous position during the week which begins today. Cambridge seems to be populated entirely by two classes of inhabitants, neither of which is at all inclined to be appreciative of his efforts to provide them with such stray bits of enlightment as may still be found after the beginning of the Reading Period. On the one side there is a harried group who mutter something about "Divisionals" and hurry back to their books. At the other extreme are those whose academic engagements have been reduced to a minimum and who do not even look up from...