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...Consumption, which had been for half a century the muse of literature, became a blot on society, the symbol of all that was rotten in the industrial world. Against it, in a great crusade . . . turned the champions of a happier, more smiling life." The change in attitude came at the same time as a great advance in knowledge. Robert Koch isolated the tubercle bacillus and proved what Italians and Spaniards had contended for centuries-that TB is contagious. Many of the greatest authorities on the disease scoffed, and kept on insisting that the taint was hereditary or connected with climate...
...There is the] constant temptation for this country to turn away from God and to become immersed in material pursuits . . . Widespread yielding to this temptation has given rise to an even greater danger-the way of life we call secularism. Those who follow this way of life distort and blot out our religious traditions, and seek to remove all influence of religion from public life. Their main efforts are centered on the divorce of religion from education...
...minority of the rentors--don't talk about it either. The Housing Office in PBH can infer the difficulty from the fact that colored students return for help time after time, while white students rent the same rooms with no difficulty. Discrimination does exist, and it is a blot on Harvard's generally good record of race relations...
...Alpert glanced out the window and saw several bright lights shimmering in the morning sunshine. After calling a friend to verify what he could not quite believe, Alpert managed to photograph the strange formation just before it vanished. Even a dirty screen on the photo-lab window did not blot out the luminous formation near the power plant smokestacks (see cut). ¶ Flying over Greenfield, Ind., an airline pilot reported a brilliant green, tear-shaped light "going like a bat out of hell." ¶ In Chenango County, N.Y., citizens gathered in crowds to watch a "whole flotilla of bright, shiny...
Lampy's Ibis has finally come home to roost, and after much consultation with the Jester, the Blot, and the Narthex, has come out with his annual list of the year's ten worst motion pictures...