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...case anyone ever questioned the American Medical Association's power to quell a quack completely, the Association's Journal last week detailed its handling of Norman Baker. He flourished at Muscatine, Iowa, in a region of many unorthodox Corn Belt medical ideas.* Originally the man was a die-&-tool maker, then a builder of calliopes. Somehow he got into merchandising, sold radios, storage batteries, flour, coffee, canned fruits, silverware, brooms, alarm clocks, overcoats, mattresses, motor car tires, typewriters, paints...
...many years ago", he is quoted as saying, "it was not uncommon to see a dozen cops pile into a wagon and hurry off to quell some riot in a dormitory entry, or in the Square. In my own student days our various committee meetings and editorial conferences were held in the crowded saloons of Harvard Square. Our class dinners and commencement gatherings were occasions of drunken revelry. It used to be a point of honor never to leave a drunken classmate in Boston or down at the port. Instead, he must somehow be got home...
...this spirit which is making any settlement of the Manchurian crisis difficult. Although the whole affair was, to outward appearances, started by Japan, strong feeling in China has hindered any arbitration. The educated Chinese should be the first to quell, the trouble, rather than among those agitating further hostilities. Undoubtedly they have been carried away by the bitter feeling and the demonstrative jingoism of war. It is they, the intelligent, the educated, who should be the leaders toward peace. Their views may have little immediate effect but they might aid in furthering an amicable settlement...
...excellence of the poetry, but of its responsibility to present to its readers the finest flowering of current undergraduate writings. Mr. Conrad's poems are good, very good, and give a more than adequate answer to such sceptics as hold that Harvard's education of criticism and classicism will quell the romantic ability of even an undergraduate. Of the four poems, Ex Libris shows, perhaps, the best technique, the nicest imagery, but discrimination is difficult. It is to be hoped that the Advocate will later run the Bowdoin Prize Essays if they approach the excellence of Mr. Conrad's work...
Porter Smith says no threat of the use of tear gas bombs was made at all to quell him by the State troopers, but that he volunteered to go with the troopers when they boarded the train...