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...years and a baccalaureate degree (A.B. or B.S.), a policy initiated by Johns Hopkins in 1893. College, medical school and interneship bring a medical student (about 22.000 are now preparing themselves in the U. S.) to almost 30 before he or she is considered fit to practice medicine. "All wrong," insisted Surgeon William James Mayo. He believes college courses tend to dull the student's mind when it is most receptive. Dean Wilburt Cornell Davison of young Duke University's School of Medicine...
...with frequent rests (a dig at Playboy Richard Halliburton). The expedition had to take along so much impedimenta (such as grand pianos) because of testimonials to manufacturers that no room was left for navigating instruments. So when their airplane landed at the Pole they found it was the wrong one. They decided to say nothing about it, got their stereotyped Manhattan welcome just the same...
...which can only be described as intensely and drippingly wet. Such are the kind that perpetrate the subway riot tradition, and upon this class the Vagabond proposes to do slaughter, mayhem, and bodily violence, when and if a riot breaks out this evening. His tactics may be all wrong, he may only be adding fuel to the fire but at least he will have given outlet to a desire which has been nurtured in the last two battered and darkened "El" cars in which he has ridden, a desire to pound the man who blows out the first fuse...
...engineer hesitates to fix his engine because if it goes wrong after that he may be seized by the G. P. U., convicted of "sabotage" and shot as a "counter revolutionary." His hesitation becomes laziness and indifference, until the G. P. U. perhaps arrests him for "willful negligence" and shoots him for "counter revolution...
...wondering, he took to the path of the great Yogi, he sat at the feet of the guru, a holy man, studied breathing exercises and renunciation of the body, learned new definitions of purity and love. He heard the guru say that the worst enemy is not death, but wrong desire, that wars are "mass-perversions of the sexual instinct," and that discipline is paramount. To this mystery, this wisdom of the East, the Western writer brought a rare and tolerant sympathy and a rarer understanding of his own deficiencies...