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...machinery of law exists in America, but the thing does not work properly. It does not work properly because the public conscience does not function as it should. Though gangsters are an inconsiderable proportion of the whole population in America, they carry on their activities unchecked, and the only reason for that can be that at the bottom the public does not mind them, does not feel what they do is wrong. You cannot blame the police in such a case. The police are merely the instruments whereby the public sense of what is right or wrong expresses itself. . . ." Neither...
Until we teach them and educate them how to live so that their brains will continue to function for the years added to the bodies' life, there is little use in increasing the life span."-Dr. Mayo...
...function of the committee, which was set up a year ago largely as a result of the efforts of Dean Wallace B. Donham, is to act as an intermediary between the students and the faculty. If a majority of the committee feels that two much time is spent in a certain class in questioning of the students, that the professor in charge does not give adequate explanations, or that the assignment of written reports is too heavy, this opinion is transmitted to the faculty member concerned via the dean's office...
...survival and growth of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art is an indication that such an organization has a real function in the University. In an atmosphere of pedantry, which consists of the picking over of long dead ideas and events, it is revivifying to have an active interest shown in such creative movements which look toward the future...
...Dudley 3L, president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, explained the purpose of these lectures. He said, "These talks were given so that members of the Legal Aid Bureau will know how the local courts function when domestic cases come before the judge. We also want to know how to cooperate with the two men who spoke before us tonight. Over one-sixth of the cases handled through the bureau involve domestic troubles and therefore this knowledge is quite essential...