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...bunk shows practically 100 percent efficiency in complying with the advertising laws, but I believe that the continued sale of these products is doomed to failure for purely psychological reasons. A property medicine to be successful, must possess two prime attributes, first, it must have a disagreeable taste or odor and, second, it must show immediate physiological results. The common yeast vitamine tablets and similar patent medicines must of necessity fail in these attributes, unless drugs are added, because they are tasteless and because we all have an abundance of vitamines in our daily diets...
...been crowded, and its Library, which comprises some 13,000 volumes, has been unappreciated quite out of proportion to its scope. Even the college papers, which have maintained offices in the building, have gradually deserted their former haunts, preferring, no doubt, an atmosphere less heavily surcharged with the musty odor characteristic of disuse...
...good example of the badly-made play. Its characters are masters of misunderstanding, they employ their subtlety in letting the obvious elude them; if they once stopped to think the whole show would be given away, so they never stop to think. Yet the play is charming, with its odor of jockeys and horse-racing, baronets and bachelor apartments, epigrams, good bad women and other pleasant things now out of date. True, the text now contains motors cars, and a subway, but imagine these characters in them! Oh, those were delightful days when you could drop in on my Lord...
...Delta, so named because, like the Nile, it suffers a yearly spring overflow, where, from his brazen seat, John Harvard frowns down at these roystering children of a frivolous generation, the banquet boards of 1917's hospitality will rest. And in Memorial Hall the ingrained odor of cabbage and beef from ten thousand dinners will be temporarily smothered under the fragrance of rose-water and culled flowers...
...poetry in the number is interestingly contrasted. When we say that Mr. Thacher Nelson's "Evening Prayer" suggests irresistibly the odor of the steam pipes in an Anglican church, we are not attacking it as a poem. On the contrary, it has lines which render it almost the most notable verse in the number. The first line of Mr. Benshimol's poem makes it memorable, while in Mr. Brent Allison the Monthly has a new and interesting talent. The last stanza of his "Moonrise in Boston," however faulty, is poignant and beautiful. In Mr. Poore's poem, an exceptional technique...