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...real trouble with women, Dr. Dakin believes, is mental and emotional mal adjustment to industry. Unused to machinery, they are easy prey to suggestions that machines are bad for their "delicate nervous systems." They expect sympathy and special attention. They are easily up set by troubles at home. They use muscles tensely from fear of failure or excessive determination to do well...
Scientific Gobbledygool. The meeting also heard 132 other papers on psychiatry, many of them about the effects of battle on the nervous system, most of them in a kind of scientific gobbledygook ("mal-orientation," "preneurotic interval") very baffling to laymen. Some highlights...
Last year's Jubilee, headed by Douglas Danner NROTC, of Eliot House, featured Mal Hallett's 13-piece band, playing from 10 to 2 o'clock. Vocal honors were handled by Terry Russell, who sang all her numbers on request and after 10 o'clock the festivities were broadcast over the Crimson Network. Negotiations for the band have already begun and a definite decision on the date and the time is to be expected soon...
...Regimental Ball at the Statler on June 23rd honoring Company A was most successful. The main ballroom was decorated with Naval flags and pennants. The evening called for cool whites and summer formals. Mal Hallett's Orchestra furnished the music. Under the direction of Lt. (jg) O. B. Dahle, the N. T. S. Glee Club sang several numbers including the beloved "This Is My Home" by Sibelius, "Service Medley", the Negro spiritual "Steal Away", and "This Is Worth Fighting For", featuring the baritone voice of Ensign Bernard Lamb...
Last week a new drug, sponsored by Manhattan's Neurological Institute, joined the list: dl-glutamic acid hydrochloride. It is helpful only in petit mal (temporary loss of consciousness) and psychic attacks (unreasonable behavior with amnesia). It is not effective for convulsions. The drug probably acts by acidifying the blood-a beneficial effect formerly achieved only by an extremely unpleasant fatty diet...