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...understand why geography is being curtailed at Harvard, just at the time when it ha become generally recognized as one of the important subjects for study in colleges throughout the country," he added. "I hope the decision will be rescinded...
...marriage is the procreation and education of children; the secondary end, mutual support and the relief of concupiscence. . . . Contraceptive intercourse, whether with the aid of instruments or not, is not consummation of marriage [and is] against nature . . . shameful and intrinsically immoral." Humorist A. P. Herbert, M.P., put in his ha penny's worth: if marriage-with-contraceptive isn't marriage; then adultery-with-contraceptive isn't adultery...
...Nane, they say, ha'e I," lamented Robert Burns's lonely lassie. But, if statistics meant anything, every lassie could have her laddie this happy leap year. "Scotland," announced Registrar General J. G. Kyd last week, "is now the only European country where a maldistribution of sexes at marriageable age places women in a favorable position for finding husbands." The romantic ratio: 162,000 nubile Scotswomen, between the ages of 25 and 29, to match 176,000 unmarried men in the same age group...
...after The Jolson Story came out, they did a big switcheroo. 'Please, Mr. Jolson, don't sign with anybody else for ten minutes. Just give us ten minutes, please.' Sign, ha, ha! I didn't want to sign with nobody, so I tell-'em $7,500 a week. They say yes and I almost drop dead...
Rousseau: "Ha! Ha! If Mademoiselle [his housekeeper] were not here, I would give you a most ample reason...