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...overdeveloped in comparison with her frail body. She took cod-liver oil in vain effort to fatten her trunk. As artist she was as jealous as she was confident of first place. As leader of her troupe she was a benevolent martinet. She bossed them sternly in their dance regimen, nursed them through their personal woes. Before every performance, despite her assurance of success and applause, she was nervous, tense. In public she affected simple, obscuring clothes. In the privacy of her home she liked soft, comfortable things...
...time (1902-04, 1915-16) mayor of Batavia, N. Y. Dr. Burkhart, who has Mr. Eastman's unqualified trust, arranged the organization of the other two Eastman dental institutions-at London and Rome. He is to buy all their equipment, approve the appointments of their directors, superintend their regimen. Last week he sailed with his wife and stepdaughter to attend the dedication of London's Eastman Dental Clinic, perhaps also the groundbreaking for the Rome dispensary...
...Institute was under the surface. Every Institutee, all the time, was supposed to practice The Method; to be aware of all bodily movements as though someone else were making them ("observation with non-identification"). The dances were valuable in promoting the objective study of one's own movements. This regimen was part of an attempt to attain complete self-consciousness?chemical, physical, psychological awareness-of-self. Achieving this, a man might properly understand himself as part of his environment, might develop will, avoid being machine-like in a machine...
With the season of 1920, under the coaching of W. H. Claflin, Jr., '15, the post-war renaissance of Harvard hockey began. The first two years of this regimen were marked by four straight victories over Yale, in an advancing progression, with scores ranging from 3-0 to 13-1. Two more consecutive triumphs followed in 1922, but in the following year, the first of a long, ambitious schedule, Bulldog turned and bit back, and refused to be downed without the bitterest struggle that a Harvard-Yale hockey series has ever produced...
Fresh lettuce was added to the rats' meals. The animals swiftly waxed mature in all respects. Dr. Evans fed others liver with the basic regimen. Liver, too, effectively matured them. Dr. Evans and his aides decided that both liver and lettuce contained some element the lack of which prevented physical maturity. They reduced that common element of lettuce and liver to a form that was relatively pure as a physical preparation but intricately complex as a chemical compound. They named it Vitamin F and guarded well their research. Immediately upon the public announcement last week, Dr. Evans took train...