Word: infantability
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...cradle of liberty still oscillates. The restless infant tosses within. The stern foot of governance steadies from without...
Americans of 1925 are prone to think of Calvin Coolidge as unique among presidents for his taciturnity. That such is far from the case, however, is clear from an account of half a century ago in the Magenta, as the CRIMSON was called in its infant years, describing the Lexington and Concord centennial celebration of April 19, 1875. Only a Harvard cheer, "given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering," was able to evoke from President Grant even "a faint motion of the risible muscles" on that historic occasion. If, as rumor has it, President Coolidge visits Cambridge...
...best, such friendly contacts are few. An ever growing number of undergraduates came to take it as part of the system that they should plod along with the numbing sense of intellectual loneliness in their hearts. To these, as well as to their more fortunate fellows, the infant tutorial system brought new hope. The promise of a new link between the students and the faculty was welcomed with enthusiasm, and though there is still much to be done to perfect the plan, in the main it is justifying itself. The personal element which Dr. Demos emphasizes as so important...
...Chicago, an infant's crèche was opened by the city's University. Small persons of three, four and five years, instead of keeping their doting parents at home by their screechings and other forms of infantile hilarity, can now be left to exercise their lungs as they see fit in a day nursery, while fathers and mothers attend to the sterner matters of life in the lecture room...
...Manhattan, an infant, delivered, appeared to be a corpse; there was no action of the heart, though the lungs exhibited a faint, spasmodic twitching. For 15 minutes Dr. Israel Kassow, attendant physician, worked in vain, suddenly remembered reading of how a pulmotor had been used in a similar case in Chicago. He seized a telephone, called up the Northern Union Gas Co., explained his need; an emergency pulmotor crew raced to the hospital with siren roaring. The pulmotor forced air into the apparently lifeless lungs, sucked it out again; the lungs responded, the pulse began to strike in the small...