Word: aesculapius
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...Intruder was composed by one Paul Eldridge with the following ingredients: Item: water adrip wears away stone, rain pitpat on roofs often melts morals. Item: since Aesculapius, physicians have seduced, been seduced by nurses. Item: wine stirs passion. In the office of Dr. John Weston was an attendant-nurse. Mrs. Weston spent a rainy night under another roof, the nurse a "beautiful, marvelous" one under the Westons' with the doctor. Six years later Nurse Katy returned to make her child an honest son. Kind words, a tear, a plea softened her wrath, ended the play, dismissed a summer audience...
...Department. So Dr. Wilbur was without handicap when two years ago he led the U. S. group to the Institute of Pacific Relations, the first successful attempt to mobilize pan-Pacific thought in international affairs. In fine, Dr. Wilbur has definitely turned from medicine; has deliberately made Aesculapius his handman...
...excellence set by its first few volumes. Since Haldane's Baedalus, Russell's replying Icarus and Crookshank's Mongol in Our Midst, many of the little red books have enjoyed prestige that was largely borrowed. Bertrand Russell wrote a second book (What I Believe), as did Dr. Crookshank (Aesculapius) that stood on independent merits. The feminist controversy between Mrs. Russell and Captain Ludovici (Hypatia v. Lysistrata) was very readable, though biased on both sides. Gerald Heard's Narcissus?An Anatomy of Clothes qualified in its own right. But for the most part it seems as if the Duttons have gone...
...Rupert Norton '88 has presented to the Fogg Museum an ancient Greek marble statue of Aesculapius, which will soon be placed on exhibition. Two very valuable paintings have also been recently acquired. One is ascribed with very good authority to Lorenzo Lotto, while the other, a smaller picture, is attributed to Raphael...
Professor Clifford H. Moore lectured last night on "The Shrine of Aesculapius at Epidaurus." There seems, he said, to be no reason to doubt that the old legends are correct when they state that the worship of the god originated in Thessaly and was carried to Argolis by men driven from home by pressure from the north. The shrine held an important place in ancient literature. Even Aristophanes, who burlesques the methods of the priests, seems to have believed in the power of the god. According to official records, lately discovered, the patient slept in the shrine over night...