Word: existant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trying to gain efficiency through directness of approach and through a reduction of friction. Taking duties certainly peculiarly fitted for those intimately connected with the work from those less well endowed cannot be considered as other than progressive. The tendency to allow a dubiously adequate system to exist usually betokens sluggishness or fear of novelty. That these who are at the center of Harvard athletic affairs are adjusting and making more effective their machinery is to be praised...
What renders humans susceptible to tuberculosis is not specifically known. The bacilli exist everywhere in the world. They gambol up human noses and down human throats. They nest in tonsils and proliferate in bronchioles. They take rides on the invisible droplets that each human exhales as he breathes. Whole colonies of them are ejected with sputum onto sidewalks, into street cars, in hotel lobbies. They are particularly thick in tenements, barracks, orphan asylums, workhouses, penitentiaries. But most people are able to resist them, to kill them as they grow...
...first lecture of the series which Gilbert Murray is delivering as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has been given and, thus, there is officially attached to Harvard University with its manifold heritages of custom and convention--a new tradition. For no doubt can exist as to the future of this greatest gift of one who was an ever generous alumnus of Harvard College Year after year, men who have established a round claim to literary accomplishment of that kind most nearly approaching Longinus' definition of the sublime, will give of their personality their particular genius, to the often stressed...
...must necessarily be strict, but I am not in sympathy with militaristic methods. Meagre pay does not encourage loyal service. Too long, in hospital administration, have we been expecting something for nothing. . . ." - Dr. Parnall, further. Equipment & Supplies. Too many sizes and kinds of bedpans, towels, linens and other supplies exist. They should be limited to one or two standardized types for each item. Between 70% and 91% of the hospitals who answered the questionnaire on the topic sent out by Margaret Rogers, St. Luke's Hospital, St. Paul, Minn., agreed to adopt standards. Dr. W. P. Morrill, Columbia Hospital...
Like all critics of the status quo, and they are essential preventatives of innocuous decay, Dr. Kirkpatrick has found an ill without finding a cure other than one so remote as to exist in the and of dreams. While the faculty is a group of specialists in learning, while the undergraduate is attempting to gain some conception of what that learning means to his world and to him, there is little time for administrative functioning...