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Even the sacred realms of the Medical School, never before brought within the University hygiene system, has been invaded by Dr. Bock and his increasing minions. Dr. Heath who was last year in the office on Holyoke Street, has been moved into a suite of rooms in the Medical School Administration building. The compulsory hygiene fee has been levied on embryo doctors for the first time this year and in return Dr. Bock has taken over the task of preserving students health from the Medical School. Formerly it was customary to allow Seniors in the School to make the Freshman...
...butchered to make ugly hats," thereby removing a genial animal as well as causing floods. In 1857 the Ohio legislature decided that passenger pigeons "the most abundant and the most beautiful of American game birds," needed no protection. The last existing specimen died in Cincinnati in 1914. "One solitary heath hen was living at last accounts."* The catch of Pacific salmon has dropped from ten million pounds annually to less than one million. Enough timber is destroyed by forest fires every year to build a five-room house every 100 feet on both sides of the road from New York...
...Stuart Chase, far behind the times, does not report that the last of this species was given up for dead in 1932. Three survivors remained on Martha's Vineyard until 1928, dwindled to a ten-year-old heath cock that regularly appeared at its traditional courting field, ''boomed" and cockled in a forlorn effort to attract a mate. Efforts to mate it with the prairie chicken proving unsuccessful, the lonely fowl abandoned its solitary courtship in the spring of 1930, was seen for the last time in March...
Touchy, redheaded Selma Temple was walking with her lover, Gardner Heath, when a fox hunt interrupted their peaceful afternoon. The fox passed near them and the girl "saw him trembling with exhaustion, his belly dragging close to earth his brush bemired. His strong claws pulled him up that slope, but the lithe body, weightless two hours ago, was now too heavy. . . . Now not even death could drive his weary body faster up that hill." As the dogs killed him the lovers began to quarrel, Selma protesting against the cruelty of hunters, Gardner impatient at her squeamishness. With this symbolic incident...
...Bolshy," prays only for God to give him work. Son Harry wins 22 quid on horse race and gets a girl into trouble. Unable to subsist as a human being on her meagre wages, Sally Hardcastle (Wendy Hiller) snatches a few rewarding moment; out on a Lancashire heath with an agitato named Larry (Brandon Peters). When Larry is killed in an unemployed riot, Salb makes her final adjustment to a pitiless environment by becoming the "housekeeper" of a paunchy bookmaker named Sam Grundy. In the season's most eloquent tagline, Henry Hardcastle then sums up the hopelessness...