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...normally caused by a disease, a hyposensitive person may feel only pressure, burning sensations, numbness, prickling, tingling. "Such symptoms as pruritus and ticklishness need special study in this connection," says Dr. Libman. "That ticklishness may represent pain is suggested by the observation that pressure over a diseased organ may elicit laughter in a hyposensitive patient instead of pain...
...feeling in shutting TIME from my mind is purely one of relief. When you decide to be square, open, upright, scientific, rational and intelligent, assurances to that effect might elicit further interest...
...Children too frequently feel themselves the centre of attention when repeated calls are made for them to get up in the morning, to hurry over their dressing and to eat their meals. Flattered, they try to keep the centre of the stage by actions that seem to them to elicit this specific attention. A little seeming indifference on the part of parents and the throwing of more responsibility upon the child for his lateness at school often will remedy such a situation...
...instead of feeling religious emotions concentrates on human life-la- bor, art, science, philosophy, love, friendship, recreation. ¶Humanism is for "a socialized and co-operative economic order-a shared life in a shared world." Its adherents say that it will: "Affirm life rather than deny it ... seek to elicit the possibilities of life, not flee from it ... establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all, not merely for the few." Most Humanists come from Unitarian. Universalist, Baptist and Congregationalist churches. In recent years 60 Unitarian ministers have embraced Humanism. Their church was dismayed but could do nothing...
...addition to sounding out student opinion on the serving of beer in the dining halls, the ballot is framed so as to elicit information on the number of men who drink beer, its effects on them and on the food, and their estimated consumption. The last question deals with the proposal to allow men to bring their own beer into the dining and common rooms for consumption there in the event that the city of Cambridge votes for "no license." No further announcement on the beer question was forthcoming front University Hall yesterday...