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...between courses, such as Ec. 45a on Business Cycles and Ec. 41 on Money, Banking and Commercial Crises. Members gave their hearty approval to the staff of teachers, most of whom are deeply absorbed in economics and are active in research. Consequently, the stagnant drill-master is a rare specimen in the Economics Department. Many members hope that Schumpeter can find time for an undergraduate course next year...
...Turns green when displaced by a better specimen...
...after trying in vain to enter eleven medical schools, she was admitted to Geneva Medical College, at Geneva, N. Y. (now Syracuse University Medical School). At Geneva, the entire student body had demanded her admission. A Boston medical journal spoke of her with arch masculinity as "a pretty little specimen of the feminine gender . . . [who] comes into the class with great composure, takes off her bonnet . . . exposing a fine phrenology." In due time Elizabeth graduated, became the first woman M.D. in the U. S. Dr. Blackwell opened a hospital in New York (Infirmary for Women and Children), moved to England...
...Pilgrim Hawk is as good as anyone need hope. It is a superbly turned specimen of that long-short form which Story Editor Whit Burnett likes to call The Novella. "Simple" only in profile and in the manner of its telling, the tale has symbolic and psychological structures that are no simpler than the internal cross-flickerings of a poem...
...chapel, a very interesting specimen of modern ecclesiastical structure, is for the use of Catholics at Yale. Those who are staying until Sunday will be welcome at the masses, which are at 8 o'clock and 10:30 o'clock...