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...first step in concentrating in History is getting rid of History 1, Government 1, and Economics A. All three of these must be taken, for the concentrator has really joined the Division of History, Government, and Economics. They are, in fact, "lumber" courses, bulky foundations for the real concentration which comes afterward. Yet they are interesting in themselves...
...meek & mild. They urged artists to paint Him as "strong and muscular." Said they: "We would not mind if the beard were sacrificed if that would make for a stronger face. People these days are inclined to be irreverent about beards, children particularly so. We want to get rid of sentimentality and substitute virility...
With the resolution outlawing personal profit from patients for medical inventions finally adopted, the Corporation is well rid of an ugly situation which has hung its head for the last year. By conclusively declaring that no members of the Medical School or the School of Public Health should take out for his own profit a patent upon any invention that affects the health of the public, the University has wisely refused to assume any responsibility for the approaching law-suit in which Drinker will attempt to save his name if not his money...
...faith. After graduation Ann rolled up her sleeves, got into the woman-suffrage fight. From that point on she had few breathing spells. While she was laboring mightily at social settlement work in Manhattan she let herself fall in love with a worthless neurotic. Of him she was soon rid, suffering an abortion rather than bear his child. After a brief interlude as charitarian to a publicity-loving millionairess, Ann attacked penology, spent 14 hellish months as a matron in a Southern penitentiary. Conditions there and her helplessness to do anything lasting about them filled her with a horror...
...learning to use his left hand, right-handed stuttering David St. Clair of the University of Oklahoma got rid of his impediment, won a 1932 Rhodes Scholarship. Rhodes Scholars must be, apart from brilliant scholarship and civilized deportment, fluent talkers. At the University of Iowa Professor Lee Edward Travis announced as a discovery "that nerve impulses which dominate the two sides of the speech mechanism are strikingly dissimilar when a person stutters...