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...doctor "to permit the patient to feel that he is not giving serious and considered thought to her disturbing problems." The scientific approach is all very well, thinks Dr. Bloss but just as important are "a kind heart, an understanding experience, and something approaching at least a speaking acquaintanceship with the Almighty. One of the most important accomplishments of the obstetrician," Bloss concludes, "is his ability to guide the patient so that she shall approach the time of her delivery unafraid...
...celebration ... each alumnus again meets his friends and renews the warmth of acquaintanceship, while also partaking a bit of the spirit which the years may have worn off his outlook on life. At the same time, the University shares some of his maturity, becoming for a few days a community of experienced men, men with broader points of view, men who positively affect rather than passively submit to learning. Reunions add not merely to the traditions of the University, but contribute also to the character of its community, to each of its citizens...
Only about 300 of the 1900 students live in University dormitories; the rest are bestrewn from here to Harvardevens; they never meet in any one place. This dispersion severely limits the physical act of campaigning, the lack of which pains Prins. (It also limits the acquaintanceship of most of us to students within our own fields.) Beyond this, the nature of questions like tuition rises and examination systems precludes a candidate's taking a stand without the extensive research and investigation that preceded the Council's own recommendations on these matters. Democracy is not just campaigning on issues, and there...
First on the program yesterday was Hugh Shepley '51, pictured at right practicing his specialty as a ringer in the annual Wellesley hoop races. Shepley also claimed acquaintanceship with indian clubs, rubber balls, and chinaware...
...department's eight-column story on the life & works of David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter-soldier-politician, in the Nov. 10 issue is, to a large extent, the result of a year's acquaintanceship between Artist Siqueiros and John Stanton, chief of TIME Inc.'s Mexico City bureau. Because the detail and sound analysis of Stanton's research also showed a warm understanding of Mexican ways, I asked him to tell me about the business of being a correspondent in Mexico as it applied to the Siqueiros story. This is his reply...