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...Barcelona suburbs, but they had lost more than men. Luis Companys reshuffled his Cabinet, reduced the Anarchist membership to one, and took away from the party the important post of Minister of Defense, refilling it with the more moderate Antonio Sese, Socialist, who was then promptly killed by a stray bullet as he was leaving a Cabinet meeting...
From Turkey last week, via the Frankfurter Zeitung, came news that 20,000 stray dogs had last year been cleared off the streets of Istanbul and killed. Travelers lately returned from Istanbul were amazed at the number, having thought that Istanbul's teeming population of pariah dogs was part of its dead past...
...became president of the University of Maine (1922), to Ann Arbor, Mich, when he became president of the University of Michigan (1925), to Bar Harbor, where he became director of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in 1929. At Bar Harbor, in a small building whose solid brick walls exclude stray mice, he produces 150,000 mice a year, sells 50,000 to other scientific institutions for research, anatomizes 25,000 to analyze their inherited characteristics, especially their susceptibility to cancer...
...audience of its coppers to improve the efficiency of loyalist machine-gunners. The Student Union has thus committed itself and its hearers to a certain set of preconceived ideas, to a "cause" which, however, emotionally satisfying, is hardly enlightening. Unless the Union recaptures its spirit of impartiality it will stray from the road of greatest usefulness and popularity and inevitably lose itself in the narrow, trackless paths of partisanship...
...stray ramble through the back pages of the University's catalogue turned up some amusing examples of plain and fancy names among the student body. Perhaps most breathtaking is that of H. R. X. d'Aeth, English graduate student from Cambridge University, who spoke as a delegate at the undergraduate part of the Tercentenary last September. For harmonic reciprocity we have Messrs. Ting and Toong of China, for laconic resignation there is I. Pass '40, while B. Schur '40 exhorts all to verify before jumping to conclusions. It's getting to be sinfully weather, too, as A. Schuh '38 will...