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...centuries, watching the smoke curl up from far-away villages and amusing themselves with strange, melancholy songs, gentle and careless as their flocks. To peasants who have often heard these songs, sounding far away and faint through a whole summer night or winding along the high paths in the twilight, they remain the most pervasive of all music. One such peasant is famed Michael Idvorsky Pupin, who long ago immigrated to the U. S. to become an electrical engineer and professor of mechanics (Columbia). He, with Croatian Violinist Zlatko Balokovic, last year offered a prize of 52,000 dinars (about...
...produces a hypnotic sleep in which there is loss of consciousness, but no relaxation of reflexes. The patient can therefore be roused to take nourishment, attend to physical needs, etc., dropping off to sleep again as soon as he is left alone. It has been used to bring on "twilight sleep" in obstetrics...
...virtue of final examination is at present a subject of persistent editorial inquiry by the Yale News, and its conclusions bear out the findings of President Holt. But in comparison with grubbing study in shakkles with an instructor who firmly guides the hand of the mind, and with a twilight release which connotes glad forgetfulness of the whirring wheels, the leisured freedom in first acquirement, and the resolution and at least partial digestion of facts that come with the comprehensive answering of final examinations still give the present system a ruddy healthfulness that goes ill with President Holts proffered pall...
...short-story, "Children in Twilight," is excellent. The author, Otto E. Schoen-Rene, has produced a work of distinct literary merit, particularly his passages of pure description. It is a rare, thing to find "atmosphere" handled with so much skill that it does not appear to be obvious "literary effort." In addition to this story, is another very acceptable one by George C. Heck, Jr. One might wish that he had not ended it quite so abruptly, but it is, nevertheless, a very enjoyable tale. A delightful bit of nonsense, "The Ring and the Booklet" by Philip Nicholas...
...Cambridge, in a grey twilight, the Harvard crew, with better blade work and new weight, beat Cornell with Massachusetts Institute of Technology third...