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...work of Jean Marcel Paul, eccentric Frenchman who, revolting against the tradition which makes a painting square or round, affects dissymetry in his frames. His latest work, The Passions, has 13 corners, 3 curves, resembling in outline a broken flint. Another, Carpe Diem, has the shape of a starfish. Exhibited was work by such U. S. artists as Achsah Brewster, Theodore Butler, Cameron Burnside, Irving Brokaw...
...ways, i.e., keeping it in sea water, in salt or sugar concentrations at a certain temperature, in certain acid solutions, pricking it with a needle. In 1899 he caused the unfertilized eggs of sea-urchins to 'develop into swimming larvae and remain alive. Similar results were obtained with starfish, worms, mollusks. In 1916 he developed full-grown frogs (a highly organized animal) of both sexes, by the same artificial process. His frogs were not limited to a single sterile generation, but continued to have offspring. Specifically, said Loeb, individual life begins with the acceleration of the rate of oxidation...
...Mantell's Richelieu were grievously lacking on Monday night. In place of these praiseworthy qualities one found a lack of finesse, a lack of dignity, and a rough sketchiness of character delineation which were disconcerting. In addition Mr. Mantell displayed a pronounced fondness for an indefinite kind of starfish gesture that told the audience he had ten nimble fingers but gained little in adding to the significance of his lines. Mr. Mantell's voice is rich and pleasing, but too seldom did he let it out, and often were whole lines and speeches missed by people in the fifth...
...Physiological Colloquium. "The Influence of Concentration and Temperature Upon the Rate of Activation of Starfish Eggs by Butyric Acid," by Dr. Ralph S. Little of Clark University--Conant Common Room...
Another question intimately connected with the relative positions of graduate schools and College is the arrangement of courses. Too many of the "primarily for graduates" brand present the ornamental but scarcely useful spectacle of three devoted students delving into the mysteries of the starfish's eye or earnestly promoting the interests of science by investigating the morphology of the house-fly. Valuable as these researches may be, they can hardly be considered as of sufficient importance to outweigh the lack of a general course in American literature and the relative scarcity of courses in government. Graduate students are mostly holders...