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Applications for the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford for 1924-1925 are due at University 5 today. An indefinite number of nominees will be picked from the applications by President Lowell on the basis of qualities of manhood, force of character and leadership literary and scholastic ability and attainments; physical vigor as shown by interest in outdoor sports or in other ways. The final selections will be made later by the State Committees...
...truth is, he does not dwarf the rest of the performance at all. Every act is a masterpiece of its kind. Everyone has heard of the Wooden Soldiers, and of Katinka and her inexorable polka, but in vigor of execution, in recognition of artistic requirements and in sheer merit, these two most popular scenes scarcely outdo the others. The music throughout is so far above the level of the American vaudeville that one hesitates to apply that classification to the Russian counterpart. The voices are really musical,-except, of course, when they are intentionally harsh for obvious effects...
...page book is written with characteristic Lloyd Georgian vigor and is full of sonorous metaphor. The Ruhr gets attention. Says he: "If Poincaré is out for reparation, his policy will inevitably fail in comparison with that which he so rashly threw over; but if he is out for trouble it has been a great success and in the future it will be an even greater triumph for his statesmanship. The permanent garrison in the Ruhr has possibilities of mischief which it does not require any special vision to foresee...
...same token these movements, on account of the impatience and lack of wisdom of their prime movers, have more often than not fallen on stony ground and come to naught. According to Mr. Rothschild's article in the present issue the Youth of Europe are now prosecuting with vigor such a movement toward renovation of their economic states. Apparently the movement has thus far no coherence beyond a kind of common program which is made up more of ardent desires than of definite aims. To restore the joy of labor by repudiating "personal gain as an economic motive" thus eliminating...
...reveal the actual mechanics of the sex causation process. Not less than 500 theories-the majority fanciful old wives' tales based on no laboratory investigation of living material-have been recorded in literature. The most popular of these theories have had to do with: 1) the relative vigor of the parents, the more vigorous giving his or her sex to the offspring; 2) the position of the ovaries, eggs originating from the right ovary producing males, those from the left, females; 3) the state of nutrition of the ovum, a high degree of nourishment in the mother producing female...