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CHARLES DICKENS-Stephen Leacock- Doubleday, Doran ($3). Dyed-in-the-wool Dickensians may enjoy reading this new version of an old and favorite subject, but even they will not grant full marks to the Charles Dickens of Stephen Leacock, head of the political economy department at Canada's McGill University and oldtime popular humorist. Almost universally appreciative when he is writing of Dickens' books, Biographer Leacock is also sympathetic when it comes to his hero's private life. But he considers that Dickens never completely acquired good taste, thinks this lack and a kind of nervous egotism...
Professor Harold Hibbert of McGill University thought he could play the trick on Nature. An expert in the chemistry of plant substance who knew that bacteria synthesize cellulose from sugars, he called upon his colleague, Professor Ross Frisbie Suit, plant pathologist of Macdonald College, Quebec, for a supply of the bacteria which turns the juices of artichokes into inulin. They placed the organisms in small tubes and sealed the tubes securely to the stems of potato plants. The germs seeped into the potato plant, went to work on the juices and in a few days produced starch-free, inulin-rich...
...Dartmouth, Princeton) were playing for a trophy in memory of Hobart Amory Hare ("Hobey") Baker, famed all-around Princeton athlete of 20 years ago. Shrewd critics rated Princeton's team best this year, Harvard's next. All four started with victories over early opponents until Yale tackled McGill in Montreal last week. McGill, with its best team in 15 years, ran a 5-to-1 score over Yale without appearing...
...good start in their first two contests of the year. Last Saturday night they opened the season with a 34-30 victory over the Crimson Independents and Wednesday they went to Burlington, Vt., to gain a 33-23 win from the Vermont Catamounts, who had previously defeated McGill...
Frederick deW. Bolman '35 and Charles Feibleman '36 have been chosen to represent Harvard in the debate with McGill University on Thursday...