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...complex overhauling of veterans' compensation, allowance, pensions, insurance and hospitalization to save about $127,000,000. Examples: No Federal income tax payer could draw a pension. Civil disability allowances would be granted only the totally and permanently disabled. Retired emergency officers in hospitals would have their pensions cut to $20 per month after 30 days treatment. Veterans now drawing $50 per month for arrested tuberculosis would lose their compensation. A system of periodic physical examinations would weed out malingerers...
...Cabot '89, professor of Clinical Medicine and Social Ethics, in an address sponsored by the Harvard Unity Club at 7.30 o'clock tonight in Phillips Brooks House. The talk, which is open to all members of the University, will deal with the basis for making intelligent decisions in complex situations of occupational, vocational, and ethical life...
...types of reproductive organs. It is therefore hermaphroditic. But, the interesting point is that the fungus is both self-sterile and cross-fertile a condition which is common in flowering plants of a much more higher species. This proves that sex in the simple lower organisms is much more complex than was previously thought. Until about thirty years ago, no one had ever suspected that there was any sexuality in fungi...
Perhaps Cambridge has its attractions. Sophomoric rhapsodists can find much amusement in professors who tread hats and coats and the self respect of students with equal lack of fooling. The moronic intelligentsia works off the escape complex in a celluloid dosage of Will Rogers. H. T. P., whom the Vagabond admires, can wax lyric over the spire of Memorial Church, can weight the Church and Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present...
...emphasis which the leaders of the Inquiry have put on "long-run changes," the need for which has been revealed by the depression, is important because they are the only ones applicable in particular to men who are at college now. Modern politics are infinitely complex and the ordinary intelligent citizen has few ways to educate himself to an understanding of the issues which are at the basis, or should be, of current political life. If the inquiry could succeed only in pointing out the direction of approach to these issues giving the student a knowledge of source material...