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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rush also complained that the contemporary treatment of the insane was irrational. "While we admit madness to be seated in the mind," he wrote, "by a strange obliquity of conduct we attempt to cure it only through corporal remedies. The disease affects both the body and the mind, and can be cured only by remedies applied to each of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Nation's Oldest | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...Admissions Office has shown itself very willing to admit the "all around boy" including the athlete. But admitting such a boy is not the problem--the problem comes in attracting them to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From Council Committee's Report on College Athletic Picture | 5/11/1951 | See Source »

...principal ideas of the course. . . etc." This could easily degenerate into official and organized note-cribbing, and would be an in unnecessary addition to the present study ad program at the College. The way to "halt the recurrent ineligibility of key sophomores" for the football team is to admit only good students, not to provide intramural tutoring schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fumble | 5/9/1951 | See Source »

When Nehru was a young politician, the Soviet Union was the world's most vocal enemy of colonial imperialism. For years he accepted the Communist proposition that imperialism and fascism were the same thing. He completely refuses to admit that Soviet Russia has developed a new imperialism compared to which Britain's regime in India, lathi charges and all, was a riot of freedom. Nehru's great enemy today is yesterday's imperialism. He still seems to believe that Europe's waning colonial powers are a greater danger to Asia than the rising might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEAS: Pandit's Mind | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

Neither college need worry that undergraduate groups will be dominated by members of the other sex because no organization has to admit anyone it does not want. All undergraduate groups should automatically be allowed to decide for themselves whether they will have a bi-sexual membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guys and Dolls | 5/5/1951 | See Source »

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