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Galsworthian technique-thorough rubber-necking at upper-middle-class lives -is at best photographic, kaleidoscopic; at worst trite, futile, obvious. One of Alec Waugh's characters testifies against the author on page 263 (not yet the end): "Her marriage had become like a novel on whose two hundredth page the reader, foreseeing the climax, can only remain inquisitive as to the actual means by which the ultimate unravelling is to be achieved...
Embarking today for England where they will take part in the one-hundredth anniversary Henley Regatta, Bert Haines' 150-pound crew leaves New York today on the Aquitania, confident of victory. The Eli crew which it beat last month on the Charles will make the voyage on the same boat...
Bert Haines' smart and powerful 150-lb. crew which topped the Elis in a thrilling race last Saturday will take part in the one-hundredth rowing of the Royal Henley Regatta in England on July 1 and 2 in competition for the Thames Challenge Cup, it was learned last night...
Kline of the Merck & Co. laboratories. From rice polishings it was very expensive but the synthetic manufacture is cheap. Merck & Co. markets the vitamin in one-gram, one-tenth-gram and one-hundredth-gram tablets but does not advertise to the public and sells only to the medical profession. Last week Dr. Jolliffe suggested that liquor makers might put a trace of the vitamin in their products before distributing them, by dissolving a half-milli-gram or so per pint. The cost to the liquor people would not be more than ½? a bottle. Or drinkers might buy their...
...Tercentenary Year, nothing was forgotten. Not least of the provisions not forgotten was one that saw that the Tercentenary itself should not be forgotten. In 492 magnificent pages Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation and Director of the Tercentenary, has unrolled the complete panorama of the three hundredth year of Harvard that, when it was over, those who saw might the more easily refresh themselves, and that those who did not see, and that posterity might know about...