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...days things had been going from bad to worse with Major Charles St. John Rowlandson of London. He had debts that must be paid at once. On a £50,000 life insurance policy, relic of a happier day, he had already borrowed nearly £7,000. And, worst of all, his policy would lapse entirely unless he could rake and scrape together £1,500 to pay an overdue premium by 3 o'clock one afternoon last fortnight...
Said Mrs. Leach last week to Newshawk Pettey: "It was awful, being a child prodigy. I'm happier now. Of course, I would like to have a literary job ? if it paid good money. The trouble with high 'I. Q.' children is that they get through school too early. Nobody wants to hire a 15-year-old girl to do literary work no matter how many scales she has broken in Binet-Simon tests. I had to have a job when I got through college ? and I got one and kept...
...Education for Marriage and Family Social Relations called jointly by Columbia University's Teachers College, American Social Hygiene Association and American Home Economics Association, 250 educators, physicians, religious and social workers journeyed from far & near to Manhattan last week. Agreed that divorces can be prevented, lives made happier by planting sex and family education in every school in the land, they sat down in seven committees to work out a plan of instruction. On the third day rose the question of whether engaged couples, barred from marriage by Depression or other causes, should be encouraged to have sexual relations...
...with quotations from that sturdy champion of laissez-faire, the late famed William Graham Sumner ("It is not the function of the state to make men happy") but trumpeted: "I find difficulty in consenting to the abandonment of a scheme of government which for 150 years has made us happier and more prosperous than the people of any other nation...
Winning by the deciding vote of the audience at Yale, and losing to Princeton at home by a two to one judges decision, the Harvard Freshman debating teams speaking on the question: "Resolved, That modern science has made the world a happier place," gained an even break for their efforts in the annual Harvard, Yale, Princeton Freshman debates Saturday evening...