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There's obvious truth to the idea that physical fitness increases mental alertness. But as Ovid, a Latin poet (whose thousand choicest verses my new-found energy has allowed me the chance to read), points out, "Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet. Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor" ("I desire one thing; reason persuades me of something else. I see the better way to go and approve of it, but I follow the worse path...
...predawn meeting in the palace, the military chiefs arrested Bosch. They abolished the constitution, dissolved Congress, outlawed Communists and closed the schools. Out over the radio went a manifesto: "We have decided to intervene to put order to this chaos and to halt the deteriora tion to revolutionary Communism." Imbert then sent his police to round up all "subversives." By week's end some 500 people were in jail...
...University will be host to a ap of secondary school English inctors during the summer of 1962 as of a nation-wide program of her re-training" to stop deteriora- of high school English instruction. program will be conducted by the mission on English of the College ance Examination Board...
...objects of a college journal. They believe that "literary articles" should "occupy only a subordinate place." Unfortunately we find in the same issue an oration four and a half columns long on the "Historical Awakening Culminating in the Reformation." The Athenoeum should take as its motto, "Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor." We must acknowledge, however, that the oration is worth publishing...
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