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...simply. There the question of linguistic difficulties does not arise. To secure a tutor who is well acquainted with the language and literature of three nations is a more serious task than to find one versed in History, Government and Economics. As a matter of fact there is some dis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUTORIAL SYSTEM MAY BE EXTENDED | 10/6/1923 | See Source »

...documents are the property of the United States and cannot be dis posed of without the consent of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Scraps of Paper | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

Osteopathy (from Gk., "bone dis- ease"). Founded by Dr. Andrew T. Still, an old-school physician of Baldwin, Kan., in 1874. The first college was opened at Kirksville, Mo., in 1892, and is still the headquarters of the movement. Seven other schools have been started. All the regular medical subjects are taught, though from a different point of view, except materia medico,, for which osteopathic theory and practice is substituted. The course is three years in length. The osteopathic method uses no drugs and is based on the theory that any disease can be controlled by nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Schools and Pathies | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: WHOSE BODY?−Dorothy L. Sayers−Boni and Liveright ($2.00). A respectable little London architect wakes up one morning to dis- cover the body of an unknown Israelite, nude except for a pair of gold pince-nez, in his bathtub. Whose body? And who is responsible for its presence there? The police, as usual, bungle the matter, but Lord Peter Wimsey, a delightfully indolent young clubman, assisted by the usual Watson and a splendidly upstage butler named Bunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Books: Jun. 18, 1923 | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...saved the silk industry by solving the problem of silk worm dis- ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pasteur the Great | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

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