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...baby, born apparently dead, was successfully revived by unusual means, an injection of adrenalin. The child, a boy, was one of a pair of boy and girl twins born in a Brooklyn maternity hospital. The two children together weighed only five and a half pounds at birth. The girl, except for her size, was normal. The boy was without heart action or respiration...
Hazing in school and college has lately been reported extinct, or at least obsolescent. But "Tom Brown's School Days" seemed recently to have been resurrected, when the news came of a suicide in an English school as a result of too much bullying. An over-sensitive boy, "ragged" by his schoolmates to the point of desperation, flew into a rage and stabbed himself...
...much discussed. Even now, with so startling an effect of the fag system set before them, the English papers are still battling over the question. The opponents of the custom have good support in the news of this suicide; their antagonists lay stress on the "over-sensitiveness" of the boy in the case, an uphold hazing as being generally wholesome and corrective. Both sides, incidentally, agree that hazing is not nearly so prevalent as it was fifty or a hundred years...
...events, it has long served as the sovereign remedy for all personal "humours", biasses, and quirks of character. From time immemorial boys have used this method in bringing their "queer" companions up to normal. To them the customary has meant perfection, the conventional has been their idea of the correct. Unfortunately this view and the habit of trying to force everyone to "do what the crowd does", has been the means of crushing many an extraordinary personality when it was in the formative stage. Shelley's classmates did their best to force his queerness into the average path, but fortunately...
...days of Martin Luther and King Henry VIII there were but three professions which a gentleman might enter--the army, the church, and the diplomatic service. Between these he was free to make his choice, unless his parents had already declded for him. If the boy was the son of a commoner, he almost always followed the trade of his father, and became a farmer, a cobbler, or apothecary as the case might be. He was never embarrassed by riches from which to choose his circumstances or his ancestors pointed...