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Once more the vernal cherry-tree is green in memory; and in this false dawn of spring, Art come creeping to Harvard Square. Janus-faced, she looks both before and behind. Looking ahead with the Surrealists, she surveys the works of the Conqueror Worm, when men in the morgue shall be all but ashes and the halibut on the table shall be all but dust. And harking back with Harkness, she emblazons the cravats of Cambridge with a new heraldry...
...Strong described the way to wipe out one branch of the disease, which is caused by threadlike worms that have preyed on man since before the days of the pyramids. The worms, which are known by scientists as the "family filariidae' and look like long cotton threads, live in warm climates from Charleston to the Argentine, and from Italy to Australia, and attack men, animals, birds, fish, and snakes. In man they cause the terrible swellings of limbs and other parts of the body called elephantiasis, sometimes blindness, tumors and skin eruptions. Infections received through worm attacks may cause death...
...Good Fairy, Lu (Helen Hayes) describes herself as ''an unemployed glow-worm," which means that she is a cinemansion usheress out of work. She meets a rich industrialist who wants her for his mistress. Spectators are asked to believe that Lu likes the idea largely because she will be able to become the benefactress of some unknown man, anybody. From her chrysalis the big-hearted glowworm emerges as a good fairy. She picks up a telephone directory, looks up the name of a lawyer, tells her patron that he is her husband and that she will expect...
...college would be providing its members with the equivalent of Social Insurance policies. There is at least the possibility that friendships arising out of such contacts would do much towards preventing individuals from being or becoming maladjusted, and even more towards converting the grind, the weir, the book-worm, and the recluse into normal social animals, with an interest in current events, the Nugget, Smith sub-suffragettes, and the Harvard game in addition to their intellectual concerns...
...broadcast such a squalid story about his country, hoped to learn at Washington last week of some immunizing agent against Filariae. There seems to be none. But it is possible to prevent the spread of their infestation by stopping the breeding of gnats which carry the eggs of the worm from one highlander to another...