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...urge the administration to take appropriate action against the responsible persons to insure that incidents like this will not recur. Richard Sullivan, Chairman, Lowell House Committee. Henry E. Russell, Member of Permanent Class Committee. Cleveland Amory, Ex-President, The CRIMSON. John S. Stillman, President, Harvard Student Union. James Tobin, First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa. Michael P. Grace, President. The Independents. Mason Fernald, Member of the Student Council. Edward C. K. Read, President, The Lampoon. Theodore Holisworth, Jr., Member of the Student Council. Edmond L. Cherbonnier, President, Phillips Brooks House...
...gene. . . . Our patient may expect to transmit ears which are abnormally formed to approximately one-half of her children. Her brothers and sisters who have similar ears will do likewise. Those who have normal ears will have children with normal ears and in succeeding generations the defect will not recur." This was significant because such malformations as polydactyly (extra fingers) often occur on only one hand, sometimes skip a generation...
...worst magnetic storm in a century. This in turn was due to a great magnetic storm which swept across the face of the sun four days earlier and sent a gust of electric corpuscles toward the earth at 270 mi. per sec. Such violent sun storms will probably recur every 27 days (time for the sun to revolve once) until some time in 1939. That year will mark a height of solar activity which recurs every 23 years...
Long before a reader has finished the book he realizes that The Years is well named. It is not so much the story of a particular family as it is the story of how time passes-or seems to pass; recurs-or seems to recur. In Virginia Woolf's plotless pattern there seems to be an inkling, a suggestion, a flash, of what time may mean. The effectiveness of her method, which she has been evolving for 15 years, is that it gives the reader this feeling of being abroad in space and time. The sense of time elapsing...
...students to show, by striking, their opposition to war. However, spirit is not sufficient. There were thousands of young men and women previous to the World War who were firmly "opposed" to war. Yet, the War came, Unless the cause of war is removed, wars will recur just as certainly as disease when the cause of the disease is not removed...