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...role who served best. As Nickelmann he never once stepped out of the well, just poked up his moss-covered head, beat his webbed hands against the side. Yet when with a "Brekekekex" he lost Rautendelein, the audience was sorrier than it ever was for Heinrich. And it was happier for the "Brekekekex" that won her back than for any of her flawless cadenzas...
...year (1908) he founded the mental hygiene movement. The first society was in Connecticut. Now half the United States have similar ones. Coordinating their activities is the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Humanitarian Beers is its secretary. Its aim has been to "enable men, women and children to live happier, healthier and more efficient lives through better understanding and management of the processes of their minds and of the controlling forces in human behavior...
...Holmes further expects to see student relations and life at Harvard "more leisurely" and "happier" under the House plan. How greater leisure can he introduced into the life of a college without the relaxation of academic or extra-curriculum activity is difficult to see. In the expectation or greater happiness under the new system one can find little more than a blithe optimism common to all prophets of a utopian future...
...future. The present is too engrossing, the future, hazier perhaps that it ought to be, is vaguely understood to be full of various unpleasantnesses which will be sad enough when encountered. Most undergraduates have a shrewd suspicion that alumni associations exist for the purpose of collection debts incurred in happier days and they have not yet arrived at the stage where an annual dinner or weekly luncheon holds the essence of the glory that was college...
...success of an honor system invariably depends upon solidarity of student opinion, which in turn presupposes a unified undergraduate body. At Harvard neither exists. The experiments with honor systems at certain other large universities have often been far from successful, and have shown that all concerned are much happier with proctors in charge of examinations...