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From Chipley, Fla., it was reported that colored babies were being used for alligator bait. " The infants are allowed to play in shallow water while expert riflemen watch from concealment nearby. When a saurian approaches his prey, he is shot by the riflemen...
...efficient remedy for the late stages of infantile paralysis (anterior poliomyelitis) was tried out at the Northwestern University Medical School and used by the Visiting Nurses' Assocciation of Chicago. Graded exercises for the children's paralyzed limbs are performed in a large circular tank partly filled with shallow, tepid water. The children sit on a circular bench in the tank with their legs immersed for several hours at a time. The device was suggested by a woman whose little daughter, crippled by the disease, was taken to Florida and allowed to spend much time in the warm water...
...needful to us as social beings as memory is to the individual. . It affords a valuable basis for comparisons between our own civilization and that of past ages, and thus helps us to see the line of development, "the direction in which things are moving". It safeguards us against shallow views of the laws, institutions, beliefs, and customs of our day, which men are often tempted to regard as rooted in the laws of nature or else as senseless and indefensible, by showing us how they arose and became what they are, what human needs and interests they have served...
...that it true in any science and any religion must stand in harmony together. The only warfare is between untrue religion and what the Bible calls "science falsely so called." There is such a thing today, beyond any question. This "science falsely so called" is a shallow and spurious thing. It dogmatists about delusions and builds vast structures of thought on a foundation no more substantial than a tissue of hypotheses, guesses, speculations and assumptions. When half baked scientists, and even preachers who are seeking to convey the impression that they are very "advanced" and who have merely dabbled...
Considering Dante as an artist and creator, Professor Grandaunt showed that the poet possessed the three factors which combine to make art--conception, selection, and expression--in the highest degree and in nice balance, Dante also offers in this "age of shallow self-expressiveness" a salutary example in "giving to us, by his skill and care in selection, as much by what he withholds as by what he tells...