Word: cured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cure. With a direct honesty like that of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America in its reports, Dr. Carroll's Interchurch Conference' study of these church losses recommends a cure: "The discovery that members are straying away from the flock while church and pastor are busy with matters of far less moment and that wanderers are increasing at an alarming rate, must seem a grievous thing demanding immediate attention from those still in the fold. . . . Take away the materialistic character of the shekels needed for the sanctuary. Do not use such terms as 'assessments,' taxes...
Rolf McPherson, 14; divorced the man; fended for herself. In 1918 she set up as an evangelist in Los Angeles preaching what she called the "Four Square Gospel" and presuming to cure maladies by divine healing. She prospered; owns property worth approximately $1,000,000; is now coaching her daughter in the profession...
...Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and of the U. S. Department of the Interior showed that during 1923 and 1924 the death rates due to diabetes were 10% less than for 1922 when Drs. Banting and MacLeod discovered insulin and hailed it as a specific treatment, although no sure cure, for diabetes. Since 1924 the diabetes death rate has, increased rapidly. No doctor knows...
Going ahead logically to point out a remedy for each fault enumerated, Burrus makes the following suggestions as steps to cure the specific evils: (1) Replace Freshman and Sophomore gymnasium with two years of compulsory sports. (2) Limit intercollegiate competition to Juniors and Seniors or to Sophomores and Juniors. (3) Limit each sport to its season. (4) Limit daily practice for each sport. (5) Limit each student to participation in one intercollegiate sport, or prohibition of participation in successive sports. (6) Give students and faculty greater control of athletics...
...regard to the actual suggestions, the first alone seems to have no particular virtue. Organized sports are preferable to compulsory gymnasium exercise, but the cure is not in substituting one compulsion for another. The alternative of the fifth proposal, prohibition of participation in successive sports, seems more practical than that of limiting a man to one sport. It eliminates the evil of continuous training, without depriving the versatile athlete unnecessarily of a real enjoyment which he may find in intercollegiate athletic competition. The remaining points merit serious consideration. Harvard might well lead the East in acting along the lines suggested...