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...discussing the problem. Professor Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins University describes an experiment which he conducted with a pint milk-bottle, a supply of yeast and banana agar, and about a dozen flies (genus ). The food supply of yeast and banana agar was put it the bottom of the bottle and then the flies were enclosed, and the whole kept at a uniform temperature for about fifty days. During this time the flies multiplied so that the milk bottle--representing the United States--could not hold them all, nor the food supply give sufficient nourishment. The population, so to speak...
...about getting into a game, or finding a partner at a convenient time. For them, Hemenway Gymnasium is an adequate reply. They the necessary equipment for any sort of excise may be supplied "free on request", and the assistant in charge, Mr. Fradd, presides as a sort of "genus loci" to advise and encourage all searchers after individual physical diversion...
...billion genus homos who inhabit our twirling sphere can now breathe a sing of relief; at the Physical Colloquium, held in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon, Dr. W. R. Aston, professor at Trinity College, Cambridge, reaffirmed his statement that the sun will shine for some billion years more instead of only a paltry few million as formerly predicted...
...examination period there are some men who feel moved to grade their own work. Not satisfied that the instructor can or does mark correctly, they besiege him to reconsider and revise, and see if there is not a blunder somewhere. Fortunately, or otherwise, they are all of one genus: no one was ever heard who pleaded for a lower mark. One and all clamor for a "raise...
...winter. Even at this late date a last call is being made for a manuscript of a play worthy of the preferred prize and production. It would be a disgrace to our dramatic talent to let the chance go by unchallenged. Competitors of any sort are an eleventh hour genus, and so we are not in dispair. When the competition finally closes we are confident that something worth while will be handed in. Harvard has a reputation for play-writing that must be maintained and the incentives to its maintenance are continually forth coming. The conclusion may be left...