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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lobe. Overactivity of the lobe causes sexual precocity, great stature, large hands and feet, culminating in the giant of the circus. Underactivity causes sexual retardation, small hands and feet, small fat bodies culminating in the true dwarf. Doubtless Dr. Steinach fed extracts of the anterior lobe to his rats. Normal people gradually growing old will take another look at the circus side shows produced by pituitary glands run riot, before they try to stop Nature's course with Dr. Steinach's serum...
...epidemic of 500,000 cases of influenza is raging in Japan. So said despatches featured last week by the U. S. press. No, there is no epidemic. Instead, cases of pulmonary diseases are "slightly fewer than normal" in Japan this winter. So read later despatches ignored by most U. S. editors...
Whether spring practice is to make football more a hectic, gruelling business or more of a normal game played primarily for the pleasure in playing it depends largely on the spirit in which the spring season is undertaken and the ends it is intended to serve. In some colleges spring practice has been a large element in reducing football to profession--a profession which claims the exclusive attention of a large number of athletes for the entire year and in which the remnants of sport for pleasure or for health are scarcely discernible. From the start of the spring season...
...educator who would inspire the great mass of students now wallowing in the sloughs of scholastic hebetude is in most cases a voice declaiming in the wilderness, because the multiplicity and complexity of college life has sent such a terrific avalanche of courses and activities down upon the normal student that he can only fight blindly ahead and trust to get through the best way he can. As long as chaos is the prevalent factor in educational circles it is safe to say that the student will be the victim. Along with the great mass of experiments tried upon...
...letting the story be snuffed out; in fact, she says: "The exigencies of this novel forbid that they ever shall become real ashes." How she creates these exigencies, day after day, year after year, has been a mystery to many an author. Her method is to introduce into the normal lives of Artist Dicky Graham and Madge a series of domestic disturbers, devilish dervishes, droll dolts. But, always, Sentiment is the essential ingredient in Revelations of a Wife. It appeals, not to shopgirls who want a seduction in every chapter, but to housewives and clubwomen who read more fiction than...