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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus Jesus washed the feet of his Twelve Disciples on the Thursday before his resurrection, and since the Fourth Century most Catholic monarchs have performed a similar ceremony each year. Last week Victoria Eugenie washed the feet of 13 poor women at Madrid. By her side, Alfonso XIII washed the feet of 13 poor men. The grandees of Spain contributed to furnish the sumptuous dinner which was thereafter supplied to these 26 starvelings, the venerated living symbols of the Apostles...
Growth. After similar experiments on rats, Dr. Philip E. Smith and Professor Herbert M. Evans of the University of California reported that dwarfism and gigantism result from the abnormally less or great activity of the hypophysis, the small ductless gland below the brain...
...policies for educational development already conceived, and in some cases practiced by the faculty and student body of Harvard! Indeed even the most casual reading of this article forces comparison with the Report of the Student Council's Committee on Education. For in many respects that report suggests a similar attempt to maintain the traditional facilities for the acquisition of culture and the development of intelligence while yet admitting the existence of progressive and often anti-cultural tendencies on the part of the university world to include itself within the larger world of modern civilization...
...number of years the Phillips Brooks House has been holding similar drives to help clothe the people in Europe and the Near East, left destitute by the War. This year the clothes which will be collected will be used solely for the Near East Relief...
Compared with contemporary novels of similar type. "The Blind Goddess" stands well above the average. Judged by the standards Mr. Train sets himself in some chapters, the story is a disappointment. It seems that the love of women ruins books as well as men. But the people who have become accustomed to the concluding closeups of unreal worlds are not disappointed. For the last paragraph submerges with lotus-like caresses any surviving trace of thought-provoking material...