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...raised ground near the estuary of the Plym River is the promenade called the Hoe, where Sir Francis Drake was playing bowls when news came of the Spanish Armada's approach. Last week that episode was reproduced in ironic miniature; but last week the aftermath was a dreadful tragedy...
...Post hoc ergo propter hoe" will be the cry this morning after the Battling Scribes of 14 Plympton Street, champions to these many years of the Inter-Journalistic Simon Pure Touch Football League, meet the lowly kittens of the Princetonian in the field of combat. All editors are requested to turn out for the game in Dave Colter's office at 10 o'clock...
Mass production of automobiles has produced "A typical American mass production of head injuries." Thus famed Chicago Surgeon Percival Bailey wrote in an introduction to Diagnosis and Treatment of Head Injuries, by Drs. Sidney William Gross & William Ehrlich (Hoe-ber; $5), published last week. Terse and clear, the handbook tells general practitioners as well as surgeons exactly what to do with the estimated 80,000 banged heads they meet every year. Practical tips: ¶ The human skull, an average of one-fifth of an inch thick, is so elastic that often a heavy blow from a blunt instrument only dents...
...kinds: those designed to provided better organization, and those aimed at securing better and more experienced tutors. Better organization is fairly simple. Specifically, it means frequent meetings of departmental tutorial staffs, and closer contact between departments and between departments and Houses. Better personnel is a harder row to hoe. Basing its recommendations on the Report of the committee of Eight, the Union urges more systematic canvassing of prospective tutors, the retention of good tutors for from seven to twelve years. Timidly, it suggests that excellence in tutoring be weighted more heavily than at present in picking men for permanent positions...
Died. Poet Edwin Markham, 87, author of The Man with the Hoe; of pneumonia; in Staten Island, N. Y. Sheepherder, farmer, blacksmith, cowboy, schoolteacher and obscure dabbler in verse until he was 47, he Byroned into fame in 1899 when the San Francisco Examiner published his blank-verse masterpiece, inspired by Millet's painting, The Man with the Hoe. That one poem brought him an estimated $250,000 in 33 years...