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Scene four opens with a tolerably humorous Doctor who is a bit scatter-brained. He is, among other things, in search of Man's son, who has been fatally injured. All of which may be laid aside to mention the admirable interpretation of the prayer of Man and his wife. How different this woman's prayer was from that which she made in the second scene! What a rich increase of fervor and devotion in this offering now! All the littleness, all the puniness of man, is compassed in this one heartrending appeal to save a Son--an appeal...
...will conduct students across the Atlantic in several voyages, starting June 20 and lasting until July 2. After landing the men will go directly to Paris, arriving about July 10; but they will stay only for a short time in the Capitol, for at that point the groups will scatter and go to their several universities...
...silver sheet. It is just the 'movies'. Taking a different view-point, statistics show that children who regularly attend the movies invariably show less ability in their classroom work than those who don't make a regular practice of attending. They exhibit less power of concentration and often become, scatter-brained, due to the constant falsification and sentimentalization of life as it is represented in the movies...
...order to promote the sport of trapshooting and to increase interest in the use of the scatter gun, the pistol and the high and low power rifle, the Harvard Gun Club is being reorganized. The committee active in this work are H. O. Apthorp '20, R. Fiske, Jr., '20, A. D. Hamilton '21, and E. C. Storrow, Jr., '21, who state that it is their intention to reopen the club-house on Soldiers Field, to install traps, and to begin shooting early in May. Most of the shoots will be open not only to members...
...Fasten the meat scraps and suet securely to the trees and see how eagerly the chickadees and wood-peckers go to it. Tread the snow down hard and scatter the hayseed and crumbs there, or put the food on a board or box and watch the juncoes and tree sparrows fill up. Put out chaff and grain for the quail and meadowlarks in the pasture. They work for us all summer long, eating insects...