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Recognizing the importance to lawyers of a cultured background which might include such studies as economics, psychology, anthropology, and sociology, the Law Faculty and members of other University departments are seeking means of integrating these branches of knowledge into the teaching of law. According to Dean Landis' report, "intermittent contact" with such subjects is inadequate; a program of purposeful association with law is needed. The main benefit of this program, according to Dean Landis, will be an appreciation by lawyers of the necessity of harmonizing their skills with those of economists and sociologists in the processes of government...
...asthma, said Dr. Deutsch, are: 1) an underlying susceptibility of the lungs or respiratory tract; 2) a psychological shock. When a psychoanalyst discovers that psychological shock is the precipitating cause, he explains it to the patient, said Dr. Deutsch, and the asthma often disappears. "That there is an emotional background for asthma," he remarked, "does not mean there are no allergic factors. The former may render the individual . . . more susceptible to the latter...
...grant similar loans; he might have cited the shipment of 600,000 barrels of American wheat to Spain" on the basis of need"--where need is principally Loyalist--and which has enabled that army to avoid surrender this winter. Peaceful methods such as these keep military force in the background, make it, literally and theoretically, a last resort...
...wounds among New Dealers wrote that Aubrey Williams had long been willing to step out of WPA in order to devote himself to his job as head of the National Youth Administration, that Colonel Harrington was reasonably liberal in outlook (considering his distinguished record as an Army engineer, his background, his association with "the best people...
Genevieve Taggard, teacher (at Sarah Lawrence College), biographer (of Emily Dickinson), editor (of The Measure, a magazine of verse) last month published her Collected Poems (Harper, $2.50). With her rich literary background and varied social experience, she writes as one who feels that she is expected to say something rich and varied. Her poems are stopgaps for silence-what their author apparently feels would be an embarrassing silence. But since silence speaks louder than stopgaps, her poems give a net impression of saying nothing. Her lyrics, whether addressed to Nature or to Man, all share the same insufficiency...