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...organize our talent for producing medical services economically and efficiently, we shall undoubtedly find that the cost is not too great for our present society. For inadequate medical services, produced with all the wastes inherent in the individualized practice, we now pay about $30 per capita annually. With organized, coordinated effort we should be able to provide ample medical services of good quality to all people, and with proper remuneration to the professional personnel, for costs of somewhere between $20 and $50 per capita per year...
...History Department at Harvard. The qualities by which he impressed the Freshmen in History 1 and the graduates in History 29 were not always identical, but they were always virile and arresting. In essence they sprang from his ability to interpret history in terms of human motives, a talent which many lecturers inadvertently bury in the leaves of ancient volumes...
Edward Ballantine '01, professor of Music, when asked to account for such phenomena declared that such efforts usually come from "people who have no other form of musical expression or those having little talent." "I have never heard a person sing in the bathtub who was very musical." Professor Ballantine declared, "but I have heard many people who weren't. I don't want to discourage anyone, but while such singing" may show good health, a war heart, or a magnificent physique, it does not indicate a very subtle musical nature. It is, on the contrary, evidence of rather deficient...
...Strong's first literary effort was a Chaucerian ballad about a sow named, after his grandmother, Amelia. This attracted his family's attention, but it was not until after he met up with Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves. Richard Hughes and Edmund Blunden at Oxford that his literary talent became widely recognized. A sometime theatrical cartoonist, ballad singer, actor, broadcaster, teacher, he now devotes all his time to writing. Other books: Dewer Rides, The Jealous Ghost, The English Captain, The Garden...
...made the most of the opportunity offered. It is probable that even apart from its extra size, Eliot has a slightly larger number both of Dean's List men and of social luminaries. The advantage, however, is not unqualified. The effort to obtain the best "cross-section" of Harvard talent has resulted, perversely enough, in breaking up the House into cliques which do not intermingle enough. There is too little organization and initiative among the members themselves. The House Committee, which was appointed by the Master last fall, confined itself to a tea dance in November, and to buying magazines...