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Mass meetings are significant when and only when they hit the top in newspapers publicity. This and this alone in is the fundamental powers of the peace rallies which chronically afflict the campuses of universities throughout the country. They made the front pages. Of course, they never accomplish anything immediately tangible beyond the taking of an oath here and there never to fight and the dispatching of telegrams to congressmen, telegrams potent for their nuisance value. True, nothing ever happens beyond the yelling of many voices for peace. And it is probably also true as the cynic claims that those...
According to persistent critics, the maladies of the Department are the same as those which afflict, to greater or lesser degree, the whole college organism. Feasible combinations of abilities seem to be double-decked at best, and the real "triple-threat" man as rare as an autumnal leaf in spring. Potentially the choice may seem ideal, but in actual experience limiting factors, such as the amount of the instructor's time, the sum of his energy, and the direction of his main interest prove almost insuperable. The fear, simply expressed, is that the tide is running strongly away from excellent...
Pathologists estimate that there are 742 organisms responsible for the diseases which afflict man & beast. Of the diseases which men are known to contract, 123 are due to bacteria (e. g., diphtheria), 95 to worms (e. g., trichinosis), 81 to fungi (e. g., athlete's' foot), 71 to insects (e. g., scabies), 56 to protozoa (e. g., malaria), 13 to spirochetes (e. g., syphilis) and five to Rickettsia (e. g., rocky mountain spotted fever). Affiliated with these nefarious swarms are 25 scarcely identifiable "inclusion bodies" or Chlamydozoa which cause a bracket of diseases including smallpox, rabies, parrot fever...
...social reform have promoted their schemes and rackets representing vast sums in unholy profits at the expense of tens of thousands of good and faithful but deluded followers. . . . I cast no reflection whatsoever on Dr. Townsend as a medical doctor. . . . but, as a doctor of the ills which afflict our social order, he is a charlatan and a quack...
Thirteen years ago Listerine's admen made the U. S. public halitosis-conscious. Since then newspaper and magazine advertising pages have been smeared with warnings of strange afflictions discovered by copywriters. Last week Printers' Ink counted up 93, of which 63 directly concern the human body. Nineteen afflict the skin, 13 concern the oral cavity, eight visit the digestive tract. Counting five bad-breath plagues included in the oral category, twelve have to do with nasty smells...