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Clearly, this is not a satisfactory mode of procedure whereby a particular distinction is made between men who may declare themselves unable to pay and men who may say nothing at all. In the first place, the doctor has no authentic means at hand with which to check up on a student professing himself unable to require his services. Again, there will always be some patients disinclined to admit their inability to pay even if the loss of money incommodes them, and conversely, there will always be some well-off students who may avoid all payment. In particular, the system...
...dear friends, all that happened that day. The cause for debate was what words should be used In their themes every week by the youth-much abused- Of the nation, who labor beneath a great load, For they're forced to write English too much a la mode. And what shall we do?" those great-hearted souls cried To help these poor students; it's so hard they've tried! "If we don't fix on something, they surely won't pass, "And then if they don't, why the teacher...
Autobiographies almost invariably contain an apology; some have little else. In Earth Horizon Mary Austin's apology, never explicit, is to be found in her generally defiant tone. "I don't see why it should be so much the literary mode just now to pretend that ideas are not intrinsically exciting and that one's own life isn't interesting to one's self." Hiding her personal pronoun behind her name, she writes of herself sometimes as 'T." some-times as ''Mary." The rising generation may find little to attract them...
...director. No one who remembers the "Merry Widow" can quite forgive Von sternberg his recent perpetrations, but "use doth breed a habit in a man" and the director has not been able to discard his former habits of originality and his finesse, even though sloppy work is now the mode for Hollywood. He knows very well how to make a good shot, how to make five extra and Marlene Dietrich Paddling about in a property pound look like six syivan nymphs; he can throw the property sordid glamour over Marline, the whore refusing a be in a flop-house because...
...which was last year's question, and the Isolation of the United States. The resolution is to be framed by a sub-committee which will, in turn, send it to the heads of delegations from the 30 nations that will be represented at the meeting of the Assembly. The mode of procedure for the gathering will be determined by a committee of which wills, who has had experience in English Universities in such work, is chairman...