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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...borderline cases" come to college because of family pressure, or because it is "the thing to do." Once in, a small percentage manage to meet the relatively easy three C and a D requirement of the University: often by extensive use of the tutoring schools. This group of individuals, either because it is too lazy to use its own brains, or because it lacks the ability to cope with college problems, does not belong in an institute of higher learning. Many of these men possess fine ability along other lines, and should be prevented from wasting this ability in work...
...their leaves of absense, can study at Harvard. She hopes that this will elevate the standards of journalism in the United States. We do, too, but we're afraid that the plan has its drawbacks. For one thing, newspapermen as a class don't get leaves of absence. They either get fired or they take sick and die. For another thing, she has picked the wrong the kind of people to go to Harvard reporters, editorial writers, special writers. Obviously the people who could use a spell at Harvard are the publishers of papers, not the employees. Go into...
Rabbit fever, or tularemia, a plaguelike infection to which rabbits and squirrels fall prey, can be transmitted to man either by an intermediate host-louse or flea-or by direct contact with an infected animal. It first appears as an ulcerous spot on human skin which is followed by swollen glands, chills & fever, sometimes by death. Within an ace of death -by rabbit fever had come 23-year-old Adelaide Dawson, released last week from the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital after two blood transfusions from persons who had recovered from the disease. Source of her infection, she thought...
...Doctrine in the Church of England, product of 15 years of work by a commission now headed by the Archbishop of York. A painstaking, thoroughly British job of Yesing-&-noing, the report, if adopted by the convocations of Canterbury and York, would put the Church on record as being either completely vague or both for-&-against on practically all controversial issues. Some of the issues and the commission's findings...
...which there is no controversy. Born & bred on that little strip of San Francisco waterfront that produced Base-bailers Joe Di Maggio, Frank Crosetti and Tony Lazzeri, Basketballer Luisetti is rated one of the best-of-all-time in basketball. A clever passer, spectacular dribbler, amazingly accurate marksman (with either hand or both), he has effected some of the most exciting scoring sprees ever witnessed by modern critics...