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...Saturday Evening Post (2,795,388 copies); The Ladies Home Journal (2,498,310); Country Gentleman (1,459,154). Crowell challenges with Collier's (1,327,875) ; Woman's Home Companion (2,235,488) ; American Magazine (2,162,252). Crowell's three leading magazines lag behind Curtis's by a mere 1,000,000 circulation...
Doctors now realize the value of simple, explanatory articles on cancer, heart disease, tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, quackery, and so on (TIME, May 3, 17, June 21, Aug. 30, Sept. 13 Oct. 4, 18, 25, Jan. 17, 31, Feb. 7, 14, etc.). But a few doctors yet lag with their cooperation. These men President Wendell C. Phillips of the American Medical Association scolded last week, when he opened a conference of 50 voluntary and public health organizations at Chicago. Said he: "The medical profession should throw off its mask of reticence and its shrinking attitude toward reasonable publicity concerning health...
...buoyancy of the presentation. In other people's productions of Twelfth Night, the complicated fortunes of Viola, the shipwrecked maid, in love with the Duke of Illyria in love with the proud Olivia in love with the shipwrecked maid impersonating her twin brother are too frequently allowed to lag into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy in a gay spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher...
...case this change definitely goes into effect it is feared that, with the matches being held only once every four years in each country, interest in them will greatly lag. Harvard has in her strong material this year an added reason for wishing to continue the old system. K. S. Pfaffman '24 is coming to Cambridge this week to confer with W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, captain of the tennis team, on the possibilities of arranging the trip, especially of persuading Yale to continue the old policy...
...American university presidents were quoted in significant comment on education in yesterday's papers. Mr. Frank of the University of Wisconsin offered the interesting criticism that American university lag behind all the rest of the national educational structure and that the reason thereof is the pernicious influence of the elective system. Mr. Angell of Yale declared in Chicago that important changes in undergraduate fashions have taken place and that "it is now good form to study...