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...Moreau is engaged in trying, with partial success, to create humans. His more satisfactory experiments he uses as house servants; the others he allows to roam the forests of his island, so long as they refrain from eating one another or gnawing the bark off trees. When a young castaway (Richard Arlen) turns up at the island, Dr. Moreau regards him as a suitable mate for his artfully constructed "panther woman." The romance progresses nicely until the castaway notices that the panther woman's finger nails are claws. Finally the castaway's fiancée comes to rescue...
...inclined to attribute the general improvement in scholarship chiefly to the depression, which has caused students in take their work more seriously and is strive harder to make grades which would entitle them to consideration for scholarships. This factor no doubt has played some part and may be a partial explanation for a general improvement in all of the classes. It should not be forgotten, however, that for some time there has been a gradual increase in the proportion of students who are candidates for honors and in those who graduate with honors...
...canine distemper. An ancient disease, it has been endemic, occasionally epidemic, wherever dogs are found. It is both contagious and infectious. Young dogs are more susceptible to it than old, purebreds more than mongrels. Distemper kills about half its victims. Many of those recovering are permanently afflicted with twitching, partial paralysis, palsy, or a condition resembling sleeping sickness...
...Library ought to have is at least as important as the purchase of new books. The necessity of various purchases is, of course, a difficult problem, wholly up to the Library administration. But student demand for books would certainly appear to be of sufficient importance to command at least partial recognition...
...rode home at the end of the day on a bicycle. He has never grown since. (He is 5 ft. 5½ in.) He took no interest in sports "because they were organized, because they had rules, because they had results." When he won a scholarship at Jesus College (partial to the Welsh) he lived at home except for one term, read voraciously, often 18 hours a day, learned how to get the gist out of any book in half an hour. Unprepared for his finals, he was advised to submit a special supplementary thesis, and went to Syria to study...