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Colleges are undoubtedly overcrowded; but so long as certain institutions continue thus to dispense a modicum of culture along with a large amount of professional preparation, the situation should cause more applause than alarm. The entrance of the professional school into undergraduate life is merely another regrettable symptom of the general hurry and impatience of American life...
...Council of People's Commissars, as stated in TIME last week (Page 10, col. 1). It was expected that M. Trotzky would be made Commissar of Foreign Trade; but, at the eleventh hour, it was decided that any rearrangement of the Council would be interpreted abroad as a symptom of weakness. The election of Trotzky referred to last week was to the Federal Congress of Soviets. A report from Moscow, via Berlin, stated that Ivan Stalin was using Trotzky as a lever to oust Grigori Zinoviev, chief of the Third Internationale. Stalin and Zinoviev were formerly fast friends...
...examined, be found to have highly developed homicidal tendencies. The same may be true of any mere misdemeanant-just as a patient brought to hospital because of a minor disorder may be found to be suffering from a serious contagious disease of which his obvious condition was a premonitory symptom...
...compounds (such as diphenylchloroarsine, diphenylcyonoarsine). In small concentrations, these gases have a sternutatory (sneeze causing) effect and in larger concentrations cause acute pain similar to but more violent than that caused by fresh water getting into the nose while bathing. An accompanying symptom is appalling mental distress and misery. They are rarely fatal, but very difficult to control with respirators, owing to the fact that the molecules, moving very slowly, can get through the walls of most masks in effective quantities...
...Suspicion," says Miss Lowell, ''is a secondary symptom of tuberculosis...