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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contraception has led to a newer and truer morality, based on a saner view of sex problems. Many, also, have feared birth control, except in medical necessity, as leading to sterilization. But as a matter of fact, large families can be comfortably raised with the aid of contraception, while frequent progenies without the spacing that birth con trol brings, have often led to sterility or miscarriage...
...impression has spread through this country that goiter, particularly in children, is a frequent sequence of communicable disease. To check up on so general an impression was Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming's duty. He turned a squad of his Public Health Service to analyze the relation of goiter and communicable disease. They examined several thousand boys & girls before & after they had measles, chicken pox, and like illnesses; those who had never been sick; those who had normal and enlarged thyroids...
...reptiles. He found only 19 kinds of them. Thirteen belonged to the rattler (Crotalus) family. Others were massasauga and pigmy rattler (Sistrurus family), copperhead and cottonmouth moccasin (Agkistrodon family), coral and harlequin (Micrurus family). Harlequins and corals are rare, appearing only in the south. Moccasins and copperheads frequent the southeastern and eastern states...
...grouping history tutors in one House and fine arts tutors in another, for instance, these Houses could be given distinctive characters which would attract to them students inclined toward their specialties. All the men who were working in the same field would have a chance to be in frequent communication with each other, an intellectual atmosphere and intellectual discussions would, thus provided with a basis of common interest and knowledge, tend to develop. Some even of the professedly non-students might be drawn into the vortex by mere proximity...
Many an interpretation might be made from these figures. Probably the broadest is that the colleges are now requiring, stimulating or expecting their students to take physical exercise and build up healthy constitutions. Another factor is the tendency of athletes to overtrain, overstrain. "Athletic heart" is a frequent result, particularly among runners. Still another factor is the intelligence of present-day honor men. They are no longer bookworms, grinds, recluses. They are expected to. and do, take active part in collegiate activities, extracurricular and even extramural. Their alert intelligence guides them through a temperate life regime...