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Every large city should have two institutions for the study of human behavior; psychiatric clinic for the study of methods useful in assisting persons to readjust their lives; and Department of Mental Hygiene, chief functions of which are prevention of maladjustment. Around these two institutions may be grouped other institutional agencies devoted to the study of human behavior. These institutions include the home, college, juvenile court, courts, home for dependents, prisons, organizations for the study of social conditions and the improvement of these conditions. Our success in the great struggle in which we have entered calls for a mobilization...
...regiment band of the R. O. T. C. furnished most of the music for the scouts, who also contributed, however, with a bugle and drum band of 160 scouts, which provided one of the features of the afternoon as it paraded around the Stadium, stopping before the reviewing stand, where the "to the colors" was sounded...
...exercises opened promptly at 2 o'clock with a review of the scouts, who filed around the Stadium and before the reviewing stand where the officers of the local councils sat. The colors were then raised, the pledge of allegiance given and after the audience and the scouts sang "America" the field events began...
...casualties. In so far as the top sergeants could check up, the companies were in possession of the normal number of ears and digits, manual and pedal. In spite of their being armed--perhaps because of it--with rifles which the instructors graphically said were made to shoot around corners, the men made decently presentable scores. If the targets had been a regiment of Prussians, it is to be presumed that such shooting would have been at least sufficient to knock the spikes from their helmets...
...well enough to talk about the sanctity of the Sabbath. But youth will be served. And men who may not find recreation around Cambridge will seek it outside, at the beaches and amusement parks, where religion is not especially fostered. It is not a question of observing the Sabbath according to the strict letter, or of neglecting it in tennis and rowing. It is a question of neglecting it in tennis and rowing, or of contemning it in less natural amusements...