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Last week the first event took place, a partial eclipse of the moon. It was invisible to the naked eye, because the earth's penumbra (zone of partial shadow) barely nicked the moon's outer edge. There is no "path" in lunar eclipses; when the moon enters the earth's shadow, the effect is visible from the whole hemisphere facing the moon's direction. Two other partial lunar eclipses will occur during 1940: a conspicuous, nearly total one, visible everywhere in the U. S., on April 21; an inconspicuous...
...Favorite trick of footnote-fetichist Frank: a footnote at the end of every too-daring chapter saying: "The reader will remember that this is a partial explanation...
Harvard cannot immediately revamp the preparatory school structure, and it may find outright adoption of the Chicago plan impracticable. But by a number of partial reforms it can succeed in widening the pigeon-hole horizons of its undergraduates. The modern language requirement should be pushed off onto the prep schools entirely, and pressure should be brought on those schools to prepare their fledglings more fully for the flight into Higher Learning. In addition, Harvard can broaden the scope of its own introductory courses, in order to make them less of a "closed shop" for concentrators in the field...
...Animals. In the early days, London Zoo was closed for the first time in no years. When the Zoo's poisonous snakes had to be killed (to prevent their getting loose in air raids), keepers, some of whom had spent 25 years with reptiles, wept unashamed. After partial evacuation, the Zoo was reopened, but animals' hardships grew. When fish became scarce, penguins and sea lions had to gag down meat faked to seem fishy with a coating of cod-liver oil. Heating was reduced, and Felix the rhinoceros caught cold. Several zoos asked citizens to "adopt" animals...
Candidates should prepare a five minute speech to support either the affirmative or negative of one of the following questions: "Should anti-democratic organizations be suppressed?", "Is isolation or an active, partial foreign policy advisable in the present crisis?", "New Deal or Republicanism in the presidential year...