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...Thesis. Bertrand Russell displays present-day laws and ideas about sex as an extraordinary potpourri* obtained from savages, ascetics, Roman lawyers, Manichaean heretics, Teuton romanticists. All of them, says he, are based upon the idea of indissoluble connection between coition and conception, which is practically no longer true. Showing the disastrous effects of this makeshift state of affairs, he then considers various other possibilities, from the standpoint of the state, the child, the adult. His own proposal goes a step further than companionate marriage-as the family is of importance chiefly to the child, a man and woman should...
...working of a law of psychology. He tells you first of all that undergraduates are younger now than they were in his time. This, we have seen, is a mistake. He tells you also that they are smaller. I recall one such enthusiast who insisted to me that present-day graduates were 'runty.' Here he is more seriously in error, for where physical examinations and measurements in the colleges have continued over any long stretch of time, they indicate, if anything, that the average freshman is somewhat taller...
...hundred thousand volumes, chiefly monographs and bound periodicals, provide an excellent working library for the student of present-day business or the investigator into business history. For the use of the former, provision is made--especially in the Baker Room of the Library--for the acquisition of the better sources of current information on finance, commodity movement, and the like, whether such material be of governmental or private origin. The Library believes its primary obligation that of creating and maintaining this assembly of reference data on contemporary business activity...
...most recent material upon the business life of the country, such as the current annual reports of American corporations, it also aims to supply data upon the history of such institutions through the collection of older printed documents--annual reports, and the like--relating to the evolution of present-day business units...
...chief problems of present-day dance-hall supervision are: 1) Supervision of music, dancing and general conduct in the halls; 2) Provision for and protection of minors; and 3) Control of the after-the-dance rendezvous...