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...after a hiatus of fifteen years, there came another turn of fortune. The unexpected happened. A Senator in good health and sound mentality actually resigned his office. He was a Kansas Senator and Curtis was elected to succeed him. On January 29, 1907, Curtis left the House of Representatives and entered the Senate, of which Henry Cabot Lodge had been a distinguished member for fifteen years. Lodge had achieved a position third from the top of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Curtis began at the bottom of a committee which had no work and never met, the Committee...
...outcome of which is worth looking forward to. At Cambridge the undergraduates, facing mid-years, have since the Christmas vacation been "on their own," no classes having been held by the Faculty and the student body left to its own devices to pass the examinations just ahead. This hiatus is called a "reading period," and its purpose is to give the students a chance not only to catch up on the fast-flying regular work of the first term but to put in some real work in rather more than "preparing" for the tests to come. The theory...
...clutched the hiatus in fright...
...fill this astounding hiatus on the bookshelves of science, Dr. Arthur MacDonald, U. S. anthropologist, wrote a letter to the Lancet, printed with the editorial, asking people everywhere to describe to him just how different people die. Whether a person dies in the sweaty writhings of agony or with the weary sigh of resignation, whether he rattles with final rales or lets his breath cease gently, Dr. MacDonald wants to know. It will be interesting to know truthfully how long before death famed men devise their "last" wise words; how long before utter extinction the moribund can sense the torturing...
University Chair. Harvard last week remedied this curriculum hiatus by establishing a new chair of "dynamic and abnormal psychology." Dr. Morton Prince* will fill the chair next fall, he of the sleepy-seeming eyes and the insinuating voice. At 72 he is withdrawing from his Boston practice, but not from the editorship of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. In academic life he is certain to have large classes, for his plans are to teach not alone the causes and the complex descriptions of psychopathic conditions, but also the cures* so far as present knowledge and his ingenuity can suggest such...