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...popularization of scientific knowledge by professors of the Medical School is the sole aim of the Health Lectures. By their projection of the common characteristics of contagious diseases, the public becomes intimate with the intelligent method to treat them, and what is even more important, with the necessary steps for prevention and the reduction of susceptibility to a minimum. In bringing Medicine to Main Street the profession is making a worthwhile effort to break down the layman's fear of the Doctor...
...doubt that their parents would. Too many, boys and girls now go to college on the theory that students lead a happy, carefree existence, unfettered by the responsibilities and conventions of ordinary life. As we have occasionally observed in discussing athletics, educating men and women is the sole obligation of an educational institution. One has difficulty in discerning how such a loosening of disciplinary control would encourage a deeper devotion to studies. Boston Herald...
...this case might perhaps be laid to our present industrial organization. But what are we to think when President A. Lawrence Lowell, asked by a minister to reconsider the case of one woman who is in dire poverty with her family of five depending on her as its sole support, replied that she and the others were dismissed because the State Minimum Wage Commission had complained that the university was employing scrubwomen at less than thirty-seven cents an hour...
...would devote only 60 per cent of their time to a diversified course, and the remaining 40 per cent to concentrated study of a specific broad topic, such as Athenian civilization. Class attendance would be optional; there would be no quizzing and no examination. "Intellectual awakening" would be the sole objective. Dr. Frank believes that this "will mean a gain of five to fifteen years in the intellectual life of the average student...
...Keeper of the Museum's Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. His monograph on Mike may be considered the acme of obital biography, fit to rank with his monumental Coptic History of Elijah the Tish- bite. No more awful authority could be found for the statement that Mike "preferred sole to whiting, and whiting to haddock, and sardines to herrings; for cod he had no use whatever. He owed much to the three kind-hearted gatekeepers who cooked his food for him, and treated him as a man and a brother.'' One may assume that only the excessive modesty...