Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This science, contemplated by Dr. Carrel, would supplement medicine in saying civilization. Medicine, much as it does toward reducing human ills, seems to safeguard men from one disease, only to find them liable to another...
...modern division of the committee will have somewhat different work. It will discuss the tale of the cherry tree as the essence of truth. At the end of each year they will publish a supplement to Bartlett's "Familiar Annotations" to set forth the statistics of the birth-rate, past, present, and future, in relation to P. T. Barnum's theory that "there's one born every minute." And it will provide, it is hoped, a directory of originators of Volstead jokes, that such hardened criminals may be stalked down and slaughtered by a too patient public...
...many of the fields of concentration were described for the benefit of Freshmen by members of those respective departments. Copies of this pamphlet may be procured at Room 2A, University Hall. The revision by Dean Chase is intended as the first of a number of articles to supplement the pamphlet. Fields unmentioned in the pamphlet will be discussed by members of those faculties hitherto underrepresented...
...limerick had not wasted away in the decades between Mr. Lear's book and the Graphic's rediscovery. Indeed, it has been a more or less regular attraction for some weeks in a contemporary though not a rival of the Graphic, published indeed in the same town?the literary supplement of The New York Evening Post. In the latter have been appearing for some weeks such gems...
Again the roll-call of America's colleges is marshalled to summary in a supplement published with this issue. Again the story told is one of swift and stirring advance. Eighty-three of the Nation's 600 colleges and universities now have 245, 248 students enrolled for full-time work. This is an increase of 15.299 since the academic year of 1923-24. The rate of growth--nearly 6 1-2 per cent--is faster, proportionately, than the growth of the whole population of the United States. Think what that means! Fifteen thousand students are enough in themselves to make...