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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement that "courts are cockpits in which lawyers may fight." There is a peculiar consistency in his defense of the hopelessly lost, of the rich and poor alike, of the underdog who is under because of inexorable gyrations of fate, which indicates that his motives are of noble origin. Or perhaps the grey and stooped veteran laughs behind his ugly face when he sees the jury succumbing to his harangue...
...Properly speaking, the gypsies are a race by themselves, known in western Europe since 1417. In language and origin they are Hindus, speaking a corrupt Sanskrit dialect. Strong admixtures of Persian, Slavonic, Magyar and Greek blood and language were picked up in their migrations. As inhabitants of the ancient Greek empire or Empire of New Rom, they were identified as Romanoi before the prouder term Hellenes was assumed by the Greeks...
...Origin of the Next War-John Bakeless ($2.50). Bursting with quiet facts...
Londoners of a Victorian cast of mind peeped cautiously last week into a new book, The Need for Eugenic Reform, by Major Leonard Darwin. They had not yet recovered from The Origin of Species by the Major's late father, Charles Darwin. Their horridest fears were stirred when they discovered that the "eugenic reform" demanded by the major is a law penalizing individuals who bring into the world a greater number of children than their income will permit them to support decently...
...long time that Biology I has been unsatisfactory in that it offers the same material to two different groups, those who want merely a cultural knowledge of biology and those who intend to make an advanced use of it. Although, therefore, the idea did not have its origin in the recently published report of the Student Council Committee on Education we were helped very much by the report in executing the plans for the new courses, as well as getting many new ideas from it which have been incorporated in the plans...