Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news columns of Friday May 13, with the announcement that vaccination is to be a requisite for entrance to Harvard next year. Will the people who howl so vigorously about personal rights in connection with prohibition please step forward? Oh, you are silent, are you? I should like to call your attention to the fact that the world's best minds, from Moliere and Le Sage to Bernard Shaw, have valiantly resisted the efforts of the medical fraternity to gain control of the lives (and the deaths) of men. The fact that there were only twenty-two cases of small...
...feeble-minded woman not under state care was continuing to propagate the species without molestation. With only Justice Pierce Butler dissenting, the Supreme Court ruled that the principle sustaining compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. It affirmed the state's right to call upon defectives for "sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned"; said the operation involved no "serious" pain or "substantial" danger. Concerning "discrimination," the Supreme Court said that the law could not be criticized for failing to reach all defectives when it was seeking to include them...
Shore dust covered mortals who cloister themselves in the squalid dignity of senior chambers awoke one noon last week from vernal lethargy to the mess call sounded from a Pickwickian bugle. The Dickens' jubilee had included among its enthusiasts that stalwart figure in the green colonial smoking jacket--John Harvard...
...missed Pascal altogether. We suspect that he has substituted a psychology for its more ultimate. Indeed, he says it best himself: "The affairs of the world interest me only as they relate to the intellect--everything in relation to the intellect--everything in relation to the intellect. Bacan would call this intellect an idol. I agree, but have found none better . . . . This point of view is false, since it separates the mind from all other activities; out this obstruction and falsification are inevitable; every point of view is false...
...history of the period; nor is there any method used in the writing of the book other than that of judicious selection. The economic flavor of Professor Beard's former works, that economic bias which has done so much to discredit what its pedantic opponents have seen fit to call the "new" history, is to be found in "The Rise of American Civilization", only in the degree to which it may best blend with the political history, the social history, the intellectual history of the subject with which the study deals...