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Lowell said, "I do not wish to depreciate the Ph.D. but to diminish it as the sole road to teaching in an institution of higher learning. Nor do I wish to diminish the study for the Ph.D., bit to provide an alternative path more suited to the encouragement of the rare and independent genius." Hence, the only stipulation is that the man not receive a degree for any work done as a Fellow...
President Lowell confidently expected that the new tutorial son would become the core of all upperclass studies, and that the wide assortment of courses would diminish to a few large basic introductory ones. Here he was wrong. Departments still encouraged their new men by allowing them to add new courses in their particular specialties...
...canard, and a misrepresentation of facts . . . Psychoanalysts do not favor promiscuity, do not encourage it, do not attempt to relieve any patient's guilt about it, and, in short, are no more to be considered immoral inciters to crime than anyone else who is doing his best to diminish the errors of mankind. Quite the reverse, most of them spend hours and hours attempting to relieve patients from the compulsive feeling of need for these very 'immoralities...
Dramatic Improvements. Beginning 18 months ago, Dr. Ivy and a team of helpers tried out Krebiozen on 22 cancer sufferers, some of whom were considered hopeless and "terminal" (dying). In general, the effect of the drug was to diminish or abolish pain, improve the appetite and "feeling tone" (subjective well-being), and arrest or retard the malignant tumors. Nine of the subjects died, but even they showed improvement before death, and some of them died of other causes (e.g., heart disease, pneumonia and other lung involvements). Two of the 13 still alive last week showed no remaining evidences of cancer...
Later, Dr. Richter answered a few questions. Just what kind of explosion had he achieved? "I control the explosion," Richter replied loftily. "I can make it increase or diminish at my desire." Could the explosion be heard at any distance? Well, said the doctor, that would depend on whether there was a storm at the time. Had it been heard at San Carlos de Bariloche 6½ miles away...