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...Klan at Harvard--Awaits moment to strike. 'We may be inactive, but our influence is felt' are the Leader's ominous words." The undergraduate began looking over his shoulder to see if he were being followed. President Lowell rose in wrath to expose the miscreants and stamp out any trace of the Klan at Harvard...
...This research gives us more than detail; it helps give us structure-the true beginning, middle and end of a story. It is easy-and pointless-to say that bullfighting now faces the worst crisis in the history of the sport. But it is quite a different job to trace the factors which brought aficionados (including me) today's poor fare, and to show what these trends are likely to mean...
Time Clock. In Salem, Ore., after Governor Douglas McKay signed a bill putting the state on daylight saving time, the phone company set about trying to trace the caller who buzzed the governor's mansion around 5 every morning and shrilled: "It's time to go to work...
...effort to trace its rightful resting place has as yet failed to show from where it was taken. The only clue so far is the inscription of the tombstone itself. The last name of the deceased has been worn away, but the rest of the lettering is easy to read...
Santayana passes in review all his favorite ideas-materialism, naturalism, humanism, relativism. Then he dismisses each of them by saying that "chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything." This verdict does not land Santayana in the camp of the simon-pure pessimists. Nature, he insists, does trace out repetitive patterns of order, and for Naturalist Santayana the life of mankind is a problem in horticulture...