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...Love and Hypnosis, is a masterly exposition of the transfer of the ego to the object or person loved (distinguished from purely sensual love or, in psychoanalytical parlance, the libido). This transfer is due to mutual influences; absence of personal criticism; supreme evaluation of characteristics, usually to the detriment of outside persons; quasi-repression of the sexual passions. Two people in love, therefore, have absorbed each other's ego.. The author then parallels love and hypnosis or, in other words, he calls hypnosis love minus the sexual appetite...
Wrote Dr. Harry Pratt Judson, President Emeritus of the University of Chicago: "The existing bureau may have added powers without detriment, its function of gathering and distributing educational information may be made more effective-but I earnestly hope that no bill will pass which distributes more Federal funds for State functions. What the country needs is less taxes rather than more expenses...
...backed?" he asked heatedly. The former Premier complained that Mr. MacDonald's policy was nebulous; he twitted the Labor Government with failure to protest against French intentions to make the Ruhr occupation permanent; he gave warning that the Franco-Prussian industrial agreements were operating to the detriment of Great Britain...
...Lack of intellectual curiosity," was the second reason he gave for failures. "To this class belong those men who set their blades to cut off C--'s, and nothing more." He said that a student of this kind is a very great detriment to the college community, for he not only fails himself but also exerts a retarding influence on the men with whom he comes in contact. With him it is not a question of spending too much time on athletics or of wasting time in wholesale fashion, but of doing just enough work to pass and no more...
...Five Great Authors," will assuredly recognize in the Roman a human and lovable poet. To them the classics can hardly be "as dry as the remainder biscuit." With greater freedom of study for upperclassmen an interest aroused by such a series of lectures could easily be followed without detriment to concentration. Indeed, any revival of interest in classics when based upon their direct appeal to the undergraduate, is a happy solution of the dilemma which haunted educators of the last decade: knowledge of Latin and Greek is too valuable a heritage of civilization to be lost, but an enforced study...