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...shot if I meet a madman or a persecuted drunkard. What are the people doing who are charged to look after my security? What a Préfet de Police doing, his commissaries, his agents, and of what good are the mental prophylactic service and the lunatic asylum...
...particulars, difficult to surmise. What its chief characteristic will be is perhaps fore-shadowed by the report, which flatly states that "the main consideration must always be the educational one." In other words, in limiting the size of its enrolment. Harvard will be consistently considered not as an asylum for amateur billiard players, a refuge for refractory aristocrats or an agency of the Parents League, but as an educational institution, existing primarily for those who seek an education. And with this settled the problem of the method of limitation is simplified. For it means that since no change is contemplated...
Fifteen years ago there was no organized effort in any nation to combat mental disease and defect. Conditions in institutions for the insane and feeble-minded had advanced little since the time when "Bedlam" was first contracted from "St. Mary's of Bethlehem," an English asylum. The idea of forestalling and preventing the development of mental disorders was a novelty...
General Oglethorpe founded the Colony of Georgia in 1732 by releasing several hundred oppressed Englishmen from London jails and taking them to an asylum in the wilds of America. President Jacobs believed that "the wish of 10,000,000 in the Southland" would be gratified could " their father and founder " be " located," brought to Atlanta, ensconced in a gorgeous mausoleum on Oglethorpe University's campus, " in the bosom of Georgia...
...Coburg-und-Gotha, daughter of Leopold II of Belgium, wife of Prince Philippe of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha, mother-in-law of the late Kaiserin's brother, Duke Ernst Günther. He was at once imprisoned on a charge of forgery; she was shut up in an asylum. Six years later, he carried out an abduction of the Princess. Thereafter, in spite of poverty and snubs, they never separated...