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...value of its social training, not of the spurious importance of costly buildings, but of the purely intellectual and educational opportunities it affords. If such men can live through the first two years of banal "prep"-school routine and generally low grade instruction without experiencing a revulsion of vicious disgust toward the university and the pretentiousness of its very name, they will be amazed to find themselves in a place where a genuine interest is taken in them and in their aims. And if they are lucky enough to come in contact before this with some of the more forward...
...Philip's loud snort of disgust answered the question before his torrent of denials. It was very evident that...
Youth, receptive to novel ideas, would be spared many of the embarrassments and discomforts of adolescence if it were given early education in sex. This few people deny. Yet, in practice, sex education is usually delayed until a time when The Facts of Life occasion acute nervousness, ribaldry or disgust. In spite of the fact that this is well-known, the movement for public sex education has gone slowly, necessarily from the higher branches downwards. Last week there came evidence of its present situation. Willard Walcott Beatty, superintendent of schools in Bronxville. N. Y., wrote for the New York Times...
...Niles wants to marry Lavinia, his sister wants to marry Orin. But Orin threatens to air the family's bloody linen if Lavinia leaves him. Seeking peace in a "bottomless hell," he then proposes to his sister that they live together as man-&-wife. His reaction to her disgust is to shoot himself. Her fiance guesses, quite correctly, the worst...
...this, no doubt, is all to the good. There is one of those pleasing scenes of official sadism, inseparable from any piece dealing with the gentlemen in blue which usually sends the audience off into spasms of thrilled delight, and this particular reviewer into those of profound disgust...