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...present Nazi laws, membership in that party can be construed as high treason; and on that basis Torgler, Dmitroff, and Ten-off may be returned to their prison camps for life. To say that this is postfacto and the sentence unjust, may be right but it will not affect the court's decision. The Nazis don't dare to back down; and the alternatives are, as Pollux termed it succinctly, disgusting. Castor
...will probably not desert that group because he might receive better tutoring in Biochemistry in Winthrop, or because Dunster has a better Fine Arts library. But, other things being equal, these factors should count. Differences in the location, architecture, and equipment of the House will, of course, always affect choice; but the fact that a similar cross-section will be maintained in each unit gives the Central Committee an opportunity to make the choice of a tutor count more heavily in the preference of students, and in their assignment to the Houses. How can this factor be made to count...
...attack may come on suddenly, which explains why children, Negroes and other uninhibited individuals may pack up without warning and clear out of uncongenial surroundings. While analyzing the psychic components of homesickness Professor Ruml concluded that "nostalgic sentiments have a varied and important role in social institutions. They affect the distribution of population. They are the foundation of patriotism, nationality. They operate to increase vocational and class stability and tend to promote conservatism in all forms. The cohesive influence in the maintenance of the family is certainly more nostalgic than sexual and probably more nostalgic than egoic...
...completely painless delivery. As yet there is no perfectly safe way to effect that. Chloroform, ether, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) can be used effectively for an hour or two, seldom longer. Pain is caused by uterine contractions to expel the baby. Anesthetics and narcotics inhibit those contractions, also affect the baby's respiration. ''Twilight sleep," which made mothers forget their sufferings by means of doses of morphine and scopolamine, is now generally discredited...
...stressed the necessity for immediate response, Harvard has not yet acted on the program for National Recovery, and it is probable that no action will be taken until fall. Since the University employs approximately 2000 people, and is a great consumer, their cooperation or non cooperation would have no affect. The investigating committee which is composed of W. C. Saeger, Bursar, and A. L. Endicott '06, comptroller, are away for a fortnight, and there is no schedule meeting of the corporation until September. At the office of H. L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University no information could be obtained...