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...Louis Rebuzzini, 28. of fathering her child. The justice believed her. Louis Rebuzzini hired a resourceful lawyer, who in turn hired Dr. Alexander S. Wiener, Brooklyn blood specialist. Dr. Wiener took samples of blood from mother, child and alleged father, examined the bloods this way & that according to the dicta of Nobel Laureate Karl Landsteiner. Last week litigants, lawyers and blood man appeared before a county court in New Haven...
...requirements, Dean Hawkes of Columbia University brings out an important point in saying that the development of "a keen sense of values, moral, social, esthetic," is the duty of the college to its students. He believes in the inculcating of judgment rather than "the handing down of formulas and dicta from the teacher's desk." The reason for the intellectual level of colleges being higher than twenty years ago is attributed by Dean Hawkes to the difference in the collegiate educational methods. Today colleges are breaking away more and more from traditional requirements and considering rather the needs...
...Sciosophy," according to the late Dr. David Starr Jordan, who coined the word, is the pseudo-dietetic dicta imposed by food advertisers upon consumers. Said he: "It is the most delightful science in the world, because it is acquired without labor or pains and keeps the mind from melancholy...
...imposing its laws which greater poetry than Dryden's might violate, but which no poetry since has overthrown." This statement covers both of Mr. Eliot's main points, and what he says in the rest of the book illustrates, but does not add to it. The occasional obiter dicta on other poets, by way of contrast and comparison, and on poetry in general, are particularly felicitous, and rather more interesting than the central text. In style the essays have the precision and moderation characteristic of Mr. Eliot's prose, though now and then, (as in the statement that to Dryden...
...high-school principals of Illinois-assembled last week at Urbana, President Hutchins added obiter dicta: "The whole business is an experiment. Perhaps we have not the brains to get from it all we should . . . [but] it will compel us to think what we are doing...