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...bugbear of sickness which held up the early season development of the Varsity eight has again reappeared just after Coach Charlie Whiteside thought it had been laid to rest and the crews were on the sunny road to smoothing...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in 1904, a wavering of the standards for admission has been noticed by impartial observers. There is no reason why admission requirements for the Graduate School should be any less stringent than those for A.B. or S.B. candidates. To eliminate this bugbear of graduate students, and to reduce the present mortality among inadequately prepared men, the Administration should maintain strictly the language requirements for admission to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Keynote of most A. N. P. A. conventions is defensive. Last year the bugbear was radio. This year it was the New Deal. Speech after speech, report after report whanged loudly on a few familiar strings: 1) The Press is being harassed or threatened on all fronts by punitive legislation. 2) NRA has upped production costs. 3) Pernicious regulations of advertising have cut down revenue. 4) The Administration is trying to throttle the Press by censorship...
Finally, I sould like to enter into a full-length discussion of that ancient bugbear, the national income, which for generations has been used by liberal economists to scare light-headed social reformers. The main point seems to be that from the point of view of social well-being the national income is so uncertain a quantity and the conditions under which it is earned of such great contributing importance that the liberal economist's confident assertion that such and such a bit, or even program, of "meddling" will diminish the national income need not frighten us very much...
Socialized Dentistry under government supervision, foreshadowed last winter in the report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care . (TIME, Dec. 5. 1932), was a convention bugbear. From The Hague had come Dr. F. L. Nord to warn that socialized dentistry in Europe has resulted in lower fees for dentists, friction between them and bureaucrats. Dr. A. E. Rowlett, president of the British Dental Association, sent a proxy to read a paper urging U. S. dentists to accept the inevitable, take control of socialization before it is wrested from their hands. His proxy was Britain's first woman...