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...Harvard Hall reconverted to its old peacetime uses, but another revolution soon began, known as the "Rotten Cabbage Rebellion," between the students and the food they were being served. Among other incidents, this conflict once found 600 grains of tartar emetic applied to the College's morning coffee (with disastrous results), and a students suspended after he "did publickly in Hall insult the authority of the College by hitting one of the Officers with a potatoe." By 1816 the expanding collection of books and apparatus squeezed out the Commons to the newly-erected University Hall, and the whole second floor...
Fiction & Fact. Three years later, Richard asked for a divorce to marry Nancy. Mrs. Randolph prescribed for him a fatal dose of tartar emetic instead, and Nancy was kept at her menial work. She was a lot better off the day the self-widowed Mrs. Randolph tired of torturing her and chased her out of the house to earn her own living. Nancy did better than that: she went North, met courtly, wealthy old Gouverneur Morris, and married him-fictionally and in fact...
Ever since wars began, there has been a controversy among military men as to whether the quality of companionship or aloofness stands by a commander best when he wants to obtain a "maximum effort" from his men. In "Twelve O'Clock High," Gregory Peck plays the part of the tartar, sent in to command a group of discouraged, tired flyers; he replaces a man whose companionability has allowed laxity in the group's performance and given it a poor record...
After a sordid divorce from Baron Wrangel, Siri married Strindberg. He wrote furiously-learned history (Sweden's Relations to China and the Tartar Lands), a religious play (The Secret of the Guild), a novel (The Red Room) for which he was denounced as an atheist and a radical. In 1884 he briefly became a popular hero when he was brought to trial (and acquitted) for committing blasphemy in print. He once called Christianity a religion for "women, eunuchs, children and savages." When his four-year-old son asked him whether God could see in the dark, Strindberg answered...
Egyptians, who use their streams and ditches as drinking fountains, laundries, baths and latrines, dislike the tartar emetic cure because, despite months of discomfort, they can be reinfested in 20 minutes. Dr. Barlow is trying to kill the snails which carry the disease by putting copper sulphate in the water (a concentration strong enough to kill snails is still too weak to affect humans...