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...effect this act gives High Court justices discretion to violate almost at will nearly everything implied in the cherished dictum "an Englishman's house is his castle...
...offer of a scholarship for foreign study by Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl. Despite the unquestionable truth that the political party of which Hanfstaengl is a member "has inflicted damage on the universities of Germany" in striking at the principles which are "fundamental to universities throughout the world," the obiter dictum in President Conant's letter of refusal seems indeed unnecessary...
...confirmation of this dictum, Professor Edward Lee Thorndike of Columbia University last week presented his study of word euphony to the American Psychological Association in Manhattan. This year's president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Thorndike is famed for researches in industrial, educational and animal psychology, is reputed to make use of everyone he encounters as research material. Dr. Thorndike found that his numerous subjects, asked to judge by sound alone, preferred such words as harmony, ma donna, resolute, serene, swan to such others as belch, waddle, stink and wart. But when the human sounding...
...Orozco starts off with this dictum: In every painting, as in every other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. This dictum is falsified not only by the great art of painting . . . but by all the other arts including sculpture, and, particularly, the epic from Homer to Dante, and the drama from Aeschylus to Shakespeare. . . . Through these murals a New England institution has allowed a Mexican painter to satirize English-speaking traditions, spiritual, educational and academic, while forcing on the college the extremely tiresome traditions of an alien and somewhat abhorred civilization of the Toltec-Aztec...
...each sack she tied a rat and kept it there with only its head exposed for an hour a day. At first she perceived no changes. Then rapidly the rats' skins became irritated. One rat died. And Miss Kessinger became bold enough to question the professor's dictum...