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Brought up in a Texas convent, Miss Velez disapproves of the institution of co-education. "It's much more fun when there are strict rules to break and you have to sneak out to got romance. When boys and girls are together all the time it spoils things...
...fall, the Hygiene Department has set up no special department to care for cases of this sort. They are handled in a routine way, the doctors making the diagnoses and offering the patient treatment in Stillman Infirmary, or if he prefers, entrusting him to a reputable Boston specialist. Only strict secrecy, in the tradition of medical ethics, distinguishes venereal treatment from the treatment of mumps or any other ailment...
...prominent firm, the business of which was mostly concerned with banks and other respectable institutions, has significance. To the conservatives it must mean the crashing of the old and established foundations, the giving way to the new order. For the S.E.C. it is a bolster to their insistence upon strict regulation of national securities and exchange members and a great aid to their program for the complete reorganization of exchanges. To the New Dealers in Washington and Wall Street it must signify a definite victory over both the Republican dichards and bad boys of the financial world...
Problems of discipline are enforced by strict punishment aided paradoxically by the honor system. The problems of drinking and gambling are virtually non-existent, smoking is permitted in barracks and weekly "hops" provide for other needs, but punishment is sternly administered for such offenses as "making public display of affection with young lady at skating rink about 5:10 o'clock thereby causing unfavorable comment from visitors." However the purpose of West Point is to develop, not to destroy initiative, and that it is successful the capability of our regular army officers bears testimony...
...remedy for an educational system which on the one hand pours youth into a mold a strict scholasticism, and on the other hand subjects it to specialized and often useless technical training, MacLean advocated the application of two educational formulae--the "formula of the triangle" and the "formula of dynamic flow...