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...Maire's Affairs. There are those who deplore burlesque in favor of more subtle satire like Americana. Others love display, like Lucky. Some would prefer Le Maire's Affairs, full of crudely ridiculous skits, awkward clowning (by Charlotte Greenwood), amazing absurdities (by Lester Allen), pretty chorus girls, striking ensembles. Two numbers, the cameo dance and the minstrel drill are as pleasing to the eye as anything in town. The skits are funny-at times, definitely embarrassing; Ted Lewis' band jazzes well toward the end. After a few more presentations, the show will probably be corrected for tempo...
...Over Greenwood, Miss., a long, streaming V of wild geese beat their way north from the Gulf of Mexico into a thunder storm. Flares and crashes tore up the smooth formation. Geese swooped for coverage. Twenty-six dropped, plumb, dead, onto the farm of Robert Townes...
...Francis Greenwood Peabody '69, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus, will speak on "The Social Teachings of Jesus" at the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. The lecture, which is open to members of the University, is one of the series on religion offered under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...British doctors dealt frankly with the monks. They- Drs. Sydney A. Monckton Copeman and Major Greenwood were on a, mission for the Ministry of Health to learn how much influence a vegetarian and a flesh diet had in causing cancer. Was cancer more prevalent among carnivores than among flesh-abstainers, or the opposite? It would be possible, scientists reasoned, to segregate batches of humans, like laboratory mice, and study the effects of diets. But that would be inconvenient. Then a keen mind in the Ministry of Health fixed attention on the Roman Catholic monasteries in England. The monks living...
...called upon five learned friends to submit plans for the foundation of the professorships and handed these over to the Corporation for their selection and approval of the best. Isaac Greenwood '85 was appointed the first professor of this foundation. The present holder of the chair is Theodore Lyman...