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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aggregation from the Nutmeg State is more or less of an unknown quantity. Six veterans form the nucleus of the Trinity nine, which has played but one game, a 0-0 tie with Rhode Island State. They are reported to be hitters of no little ability. With a record of 41 runs and a batting average of 317 in the four contests already played, the University team is, however, favored to chalk up another victory to its credit. HARVARD TRINITY Burns, c.f. p., Mastronarde Chase, 2b. c., Cutler Lord, c. 1b., Hardman Donaghy, 3b. 2b., Sturm Prior, 1b. 3b., Solino...
...gradually increasing in size for centuries, and for a long time the number of books proved rather cumbersome for the antiquated methods of cataloguing," said Dr. Roland-Marcel to a CRIMSON reporter after his lecture in Emerson Hall last night "Many of the books in a library were practically unknown and inaccessible. An entire reorganization of the library system was necessary to make it efficient. This was begun in the Bibliotheque Nationale in 1882, when the compilation of an alphabetical slip catalogue of the 3,000,000 and more volumes in the library was started. The existence...
...twin going insane while the other remained sane. Sometimes this has been shown to be the result of association, and separation in the ward has brought about changes in the character of the dementia. Would each have gone mad if the existence of the other had been unknown? There are doctors who believe they would; that having the same inheritance, developed from the same egg, the insanity is a proof of an inherited emotional instability that would have manifested itself at the same time whether the twins were together or apart. Others claim the mental disease to be the result...
Such behavior may now seem frivolous and insane to all civilized persons; it would have seemed totally incredible to any Greek, at the time when the unknown sculptor made his statue. To the wise Greeks, who lacked the prurient estheticism of modern magazine cover art, the male face or figure was, in its more austere and tempered contours, perhaps a trifle more beautiful than its female counterpart. Either one, when dexterously transmuted into marble, could be regarded with an impersonal regard for its objective beauty. They, the sculptor himself, would not have regarded the performance of Greenville's citizens...
...blood has drained into the other arm until the arms presented a shocking contrast in red and white. Red and white they remained until the signal was given. Then the blood was seen to flow slowly back until both arms were the same color. The mechanism of this is unknown but the fact has been demonstrated repeatedly...