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That his sardonic mind can also generate constructive ideas, Dr. Hooton proved last week in the leading article of Science, entitled "An Anthropologist Looks at Medicine." Therein he suggested a common ground whereon Anthropology and Medicine might get together for the benefit of mankind...
...past speak to us of those great patriots whose voices once resounded in these halls. Well may we say to ourselves in the words which the Captain of the Lord's host spoke unto Joshua: 'Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou standest is holy.'" When the joint session adjourned, the Legislature passed a bill permitting it to sit once a year at Williamsburg. After the ceremonies, the party inspected the H-shaped Capitol building, whose handmade bricks had been specially fashioned in a nearby brickyard, admired the reproduction of the chair...
During the next two days the Vagaband will spend but little time in his lofty eyrie, a thing much to his liking, for the ramparts, whereon the wild time grows, offer but little shelter from the fitful blasts and gusty rain squalls. The reason for his lengthy absence from Memorial is to be found in the many good lectures that are to be heard hereabouts in the next forty-eight hours. It may be said in passing that the Vagabond hopes to use the ensuing two weeks to great advantage before the reading period and the dreary vacation force...
...possibly be absorbed by the prospective World-Telegram; and times were at their very worst. But mostly they thought of the papers which, however the merit of their news columns might fluctuate, always boasted in their morning sheet "the two most distinguished pages in American journalism"-the editorial page, whereon David Graham Phillips, Herbert Bayard Swope, Walter Lippmann and the late Frank Irving Cobb had swung crusaders' swords; and the "opp. ed." or feature page, to which sophisticates of a decade had turned for the brilliancies of Alexander Woollcott (drama), Harry Hansen (books), Heywood Broun (who went...
...yellowish nursery by Eugene Schoen of Manhattan has walls whereon tots may scribble, housemaids erase...