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...Ralph Waldo Emerson '21 and Oliver Wendell Holmes '29, some set to work on the details. The group declared that the planned memorial "must ever prove an unfailing source of inspiration and elevated sentiment ... to every succeeding age more dear, and more sacredly to be preserved from dilapidation or decay." The committee also predicated that the Hall would have "unity and simplicity of line and mass." And when the alumni presented the building to the University after its completion in 1876, the Corporation called it "the most valuable gift which the University has ever received, in respect alike to cost...
...Toothpaste manufacturers often claim that complex chemicals called anti-enzymes cut down acid formation in the mouth and therefore tooth decay. Three Rochester (N.Y.) researchers ran careful tests and reported: the anti-enzymes reduce acidity all right-but not in the important crevices between the teeth where decay usually occurs...
...Europe one sees, behind an imposing façade of socialist voting strength, symptoms of doubt, confusion and intellectual decay. So far as Karl Marx is remembered at all, there is a growing realization that, far from being an infallible prophet, history has proved him a pretentious humbug, dismally wrong in some of his most fundamental dogmas...
Addition of fluorides to water supplies, in the proportion of one part to a million, has been shown in long-term scientific studies to cut down tooth decay and to be harmless. But in many areas, fluoridation has been opposed as premature or worse yet as "socialized medicine" or "forced medication." Of eleven communities that had the question up for a vote last week, nine voted against fluoridation, notably Atlantic City, N.J. (pop. 61,667), Salem, Ore. (43,140), Greensboro, N.C. (74,389), Birmingham, Ala. (326,037) and Fremont, Neb. (14,762). Approving fluoridation: Mountain Home...
...farmer's garage, America's rural churches find it hard to compete with the attractions of the nearest town. The result, says the Town and Country department of the National Council of Churches, is that every year hundreds of one-room churches are abandoned and left to decay. All told, the council estimates, some 20,000 country churches have closed down in the last 25 years. Many have been converted into granaries and barns...