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Died. Rigby Wile, 16, son of Ira Solomon Wile, M. D., famed psychiatrist-child specialist; in his father's home in Manhattan; by self-inflicted rifle shot, because he found life "futile." Said Dr. Wile: "I have no idea what led him to such a philosophy...
...some detachment, is surprised that Dr. Eliot won such a pre-eminent position in American national life without displaying more of "the hustling temper of modern America. He had not even, like his successor at Harvard, and like the heads of Yale and Princeton, made a reputation as a specialist in political science." But he had no need to do either of these to impress himself upon the people who met him or read him. As a president of a great university for over forty years and as a constant and fearless critic of national affairs, he was unknown...
...lost their property or their homes during the last six years, and the vast majority of them are now facing disaster, the most speedy and drastic action is demanded. Anybody who thinks this battle can be won by whistling 'Yankee Doodle' needs the attention of a psychopathic specialist...
...they have "wasted three of the best years of their lives and trent their minds into as tortured positions as Buddhistic fakirs bend their bodies." Mr. Marks says of the same person that "if he wants his doctorate in English, he must Forego knowledge in order to become a specialist." One is tempted to ask in what profession today the same is not the case. The inductive method has forced specialization upon the university, that and the knowledge that in generalizations of the Marks, Pingree variety are no approach to truth. The leader in college work must know his field...
...soon after, Quack Coffee set himself up at Davenport as an "eye, ear, nose and throat" specialist and began a new technique of gull-baiting. He bought full page space in newspapers and thereby gold-knuckled editorial prudence. He called himself a specialist and offered to treat "deafness, head noises from nasal catarrh," and only the American Medical Association objected. Such full page advertisements have become his chief means, with his "sucker list," of exploitation.* Quick flipping of newspaper files show that from January to April of this year he used full page spreads in at least the St. Louis...