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...important event of the meeting was that Russia has apparently resumed its normal place among nations. This was undoubtedly the only meaning of the speech by M. Litvinoff, who opened the session by outlining a scheme calling for immediate and complete abandonment of all military and naval forces. Such a plan is hopelessly beside the point and was not intended to convince anyone, for the League has definitely decided that disarmament must be on the basis of security, which calls for no more than the reduction of armaments to the minimum needs of each nation. The proposal was boldly...
...risk one's life but not one's life insurance flying. To destroy the popular fallacy that normal policies do not insure against aviation accidents the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company queried 50 national underwriters. Forty-two have no clause in standard policy contracts eliminating liability from aeronautical activities. Four have special clauses eliminating such liability until the policy is one year old; paid. Four have similar clauses for two years...
...common with other departments we have been arranging a systematic program of reading for all courses which will observe the Reading Period. In general the reading assigned will represent an increase of about 50 per-cent over the normal assignments...
...less optimistic, and unknowing, docility. Now, however, when professors and instructors are beginning to portion out generous assignments of reading and to utter vague hints concerning the ultimate examination on that reading, the three weeks following the Christmas Holidays assume a more severe and on the whole a more normal aspect. As has been said before, and as will be said until experience has proved the truth of the statement, Respite is not, in this case, synonymous with Relaxation...
...therefore important that social maladjustment occurring in the moron group should be brought out in the open and should, as a problem, be viewed within the realm of mental hygiene and for practical purposes mental levels should be forgotten. . . . Some morons are normal; they react normally to their environment; they are honest, industrious and well poised...