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...time the Freshmen-to-be are beginning to wonder what they are going to put into their trunks when they start for Cambridge; a letter of welcome is sent out to each by the President of the Phillips Brooks House Association. With the letter, a copy of the Harvard Handbook is sent. This Handbook is drawn up each year by a Student Business Board and about 2500 copies printed. It contains information on all extra-curricular activities of the University; schedules and important dates in the current college year, Harvard songs, a man of Cambridge and a host of other...
Exact dynamic utterance is expected from the lips of Signor Mussolini. His capacity for being clear amounts to genius. He likes to be clear. Yet he can use weasel words.* The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli's great handbook of statesmanly dissimulation, has been studied long and passionately by Benito Mussolini-on his own confession. Last week II Duce explained to U. S. newsgatherers why he has suppressed the liberty of Italian newsorgans. Weasel words fell from his lips, not sullenly, not haltingly, but with bland, urbane facility...
...Buchman handbook, Soul Surgery, keynotes the slogan, "Woo, Win, Warn." There, personal workers read...
...adoption of polygamy will drop grave political questions into the hands of the League. First, the influence of Salt Lake City will be greatly increased possessing as it does the only Handbook of Rules on the subject. Secondly, a preponderance of power can easily be obtained by any single sovereign hold enough, whenever occasion demands, to make the matrimonial venture. The above problems are, however, trivial compared with the various domestic difficulties that will unquestionably arise. For it is, indeed, doubtful if any prince now living possesses those queer qualities of genius of Brigham Young...
...Clinical Examination of the Blood, Serum Diagnosis of Disease, Physical Diagnosis. Case Histories in Medicine, Social Service and the Art of Healing. Differential Diagnosis, What Men Live By, Laymen's Handbook of Medicine, Rewards and Training of a Physician, Social Work. His later books reveal a shrewd estimate of the popular intelligence. While they never decoy the reader into bypaths, still they are in startling contrast to the keen methodology of his earlier, more scholarly tomes...