As all of you know, a great tragedy occurred yesterday. Arthur Harcourt died of exposure sometimes in the morning in the woods off Mount Tom Road.

A civilized hotel is a little urban globule floating like scum on a rustic pool.

Although it has been widely asserted that one of the first trade names given to methadone - Dolophine - was a derivation of Adolf (and even that it was called Adolophine in Germany - the A being dropped after the war), in fact the name Dolophine was created for the drug as a trade name after the war by the Eli-Lilly pharmaceutical company in America.

On December 2, a small stone crab on the south jetty was seen eating a cabbage-head jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris Agassiz, which had been stranded on the rocks by the tide.