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...would be interested in buying $10,000.00 insurance and who would be willing to have one-tenth of the dividends paid to the Fund. There will be men in the class who would be interested in buying a $50,000.00 policy and who would be willing to have 50 percent of the dividends paid to the class. There would be men who would have no desire for insurance and who would make their contribution when, as, and if they desired directly to the Fund...
...Association of American Medical Colleges, has proposed to employ aptitude tests as an admission requirement to Medical Schools throughout the country. Since twenty percent of the Medical students drop out before attaining a degree, the situation has long called for some remedy. But whether these tests are sufficient to handle the problem is a highly questionable point...
Mansfield remarked that at the first trial approximately 90 per cent of the Harvard applicants pass as compared with about 65 per cent applying from Boston University, 47 percent from Northeastern, and 21, per cent from Suffolk...
...with it. It's the only balanced ration-balanced by the Great Chemist, who is far away." [He raised his stubby pencil over his head, toward the ceiling.] Will science tell us to eat less, as it has told us to drink less? "Eighty percent of our deaths are due to overeating. After the age of 21 a large variety and quantity of food is unnecessary. All those things crowd the stomach and cause poisons. It takes cour age to learn restraint, but all that eating is unnecessary...
...touches floor or wall. Where irritating noises cannot be controlled by insulation, they will be neutralized by other noises (TIME, Dec. 15). Workmen will hear only enough sound to prevent them from being distracted by complete silence. They will be illuminated by constant artificial daylight containing a small percent of healthy ultraviolet, will breathe air which has been washed, heated, humidified. The ten million cubic feet of air will be changed every ten minutes. Contaminating gases and machine dirt are to be drawn out through hoods into an underground exhaust system...