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Figures on the opening day registration in the Medical School show it to have passed the 500 mark with a total enrolment of 503. In the Engineering School there are numbered 245 students while the School of Education and the Dental School, the only other departments of the University with an enrolment in excess of 100, total 117 and 102 students respectively...
...Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), French-descended English physiologist and physician, onetime secretary of the Royal Society, after 50 years compilation published his famed and useful Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852, "so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition." His son John Lewis Roget enlarged and improved the Thesaurus in new editions until his death in 1908. John Lewis' son, Samuel Romilly Roget, physicist who did important work on the "aging"' and electro magnetic qualities of iron, continued the family revisions until 1911. Since then this reference book has been...
...League circles the Henderson "Sermon on Disarmament" was rated of paramount importance, considered the deadliest shaft yet loosed at the prospective "United States of Europe," held to mark the emergence of "Uncle Arthur" as a figure of world significance-much as his colleague, tart-tongued Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden became an international personage last year in a single day at The Hague (TIME, Sept. 9, 1929 et ante...
...weather freshened up a bit, the wind veering to the east. Both vessels took in their spinnakers for a reach (wind broad abeam). At the halfway mark shirtsleeved Skipper Vanderbilt went wide. Shamrock V, less than three minutes behind, passed close enough to the Thomas F. Moran to pitch a cork aboard. Both boats, breaking out jib, baby jib, topsail and staysail, started on the homeward reach (wind close abeam). From then on the challenger, reputed "ghoster," was no match for the defender. At the 25-mi. mark, Enterprise, her sails taut, her happy crew sprawled along the weather rail...
...Brained Animal. "Man did very well before he was a man at all and nobody has given any reason why he ceased to be an ape. ... In producing a new and cunning big-brained animal with hands, nature overshot her mark and we are now struggling with the consequences," asserted Dr. H. S. Harrison, curator of the Horniman Museum and Library, London, to B. A. A. S. anthropologists. Later Paleolithic man was as smart as modern man. If he were living today, he could easily become a good mechanic or a bishop. Much of what passes for intelligence...