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...puff oil, Hitting the Line, showed, football is a mighty hard sport to picture convincingly. Prizefighting, where the action is limited to two men under brilliant light, does better, and the best painting in the show was George Bellows' classic one of Firpo knocking Dempsey through the ropes. Nineteenth Century standouts were engravings of the great Australian heavyweight, Peter Jackson, and of a bearded speedster named William Howitt...
When the Mining School left, to be replaced by the Mining Geology Department, all the big machines were moved out, and several archaeological specimens were unearthed. One of these was a nineteenth century rowing tank, big enough for two people and useless for geological purposes, which was promptly covered over again. Another discovery was a solid 13-inch concrete floor, left over from a departed stamp mill, which turned out to be a perfect base for an experiment by Louis C. Graton, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, who retired last year...
...Dictatorship and the Government and Politics of the Soviet Union) has been a great box office success since the Cold War began. Topping off the group is Friedrich's weighty 106, which "traces the development of political thought and jurisprudence from Greek and Jewish antiquity . . . to the nineteenth century and relates it to cultural and institutional growth." This course is open only to seniors and graduate students, with a knowledge of European history recommended. McCloskey, a rapidly rising star in the department, this year takes on 107, American Political Thought...
...main work of his new volume of essays, Aldous Huxley has drawn upon the journals of an obscure French philosopher of the nineteenth century and used them as a basis for expounding his theories about the sad drift of the world. This takes up about three-fifths of "Themes and Variations"; the rest is a jumble of essays ranging from "Variations on El Greco" to a plea for population control...
...when the troopships came back, and the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, something happened to Radcliffe political feeling. Eight of the nine divisions of the Civics Club promptly folded (the debaters remained) and only one new group was added--The Consumer's League. The Consumer's League lasted scarcely a year...