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...Prof. William James has finished his work on "The Principles of Psychology", and it is now in the hands of the printers, Henry Holt & Co., New York. The volume, which will contain more than one thousand pages, will be issued next fall. (June...
James Thurber, famous for illustrating The War Between the Sexes with his runaway pencil, has carried the combat to the stage. The Male Animal tells of a young English professor (Elliott Nugent) who has all the trouble that Thurber thinks the male animal is born to. The prof gets branded a Red for wanting to read one of Vanzetti's letters to his class. He gets all tangled up with his wife when an old sweetheart of hers comes to town for a football game. A Milquetoast by nature, the professor quaffs too much of the cup that emboldens...
...Mallinckrodt MB 9 Class. Philology 50 Sever 29 Economics 121a Emerson D Engineering Science 12 Pierce 202 English 120a Sever 36 Fine Arts 9e Fogg Small Rm. French 21 Sever 29 Geography 4a Sever 18 Geography 10a Sever 24 Geology 2a Geol. Mus. 23B German E (see footnote*) Prof. Lieder, Sec. 1 Harvard 6 Dr. Howe, Sec. 2 Harvard 6 German 10 Sever 23 Government 19 Sever 18 Government 121a Sever 5 History 1 Mr. Berkowitz, Sec. 7, 12 Pre-Tutorial A, Conf. Group I Memorial Hall Mr. Billman, Sec. 18, 22 Pre-Tutorial B, Conf. Group II Memorial Hall...
...give devilish-witted Prof. Thomas Reed Powell his just due, the crack originated thus: Justice Holmes (reading decision): "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Prof. Powell (adding thereto in the Virginia Law Review, June 1931): "Mr. Justice Butler dissents...
Last week the French version, Blanche Neige et Les SeptNains, was released in Manhattan. In French, Snow White's friends are called Grincheux (Grumpy), Simplet (Dopey), Prof (Doc), Joyeux (Happy), Timide (Bashful), Atchoum (Sneezy) and Dormeur (Sleepy). When the little men perform their reluctant ablutions at Snow White's housewifely behest, the words "BLUDDLE UM DUM" are dubbed in-which is eloquent soapiness in any language...