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...long, anxious watch went on-a watch in which millions of people in other faiths joined. Roman Catholics all over the world prayed: "O God graciously look upon Thy servant Pius . . . that he may profit his subjects both by word and example and, together with the flock committed to his care, attain to eternal life...
...only will there be more students seeking admission to college, but a greater percentage will have the incentive and the economic means to go to college. Many of the increased thousands will flock to rapidly-enlarging state colleges. Others will fill hundreds of small private colleges, now literally begging for applicants. even more will resort to junior colleges for their terminal degrees, in an enforced realization of President-emeritus conant's predictions...
Early in life, Joao Café Filho was exposed to influences that were to set him apart from most of his countrymen. Brazil is a Roman Catholic nation, but Joao's parents were devout members of the flock of the Rev. William Porter, a Presbyterian missionary from the U.S. Cafe Filho was baptized in a Presbyterian chapel,* learned to read and write in the free elementary school maintained by Porter and his wife. Joao's first teachers were Henrietta and Evangeline Green, daughters of the U.S. vice consul in Natal...
...soaring aims that charged life henceforward with meaning and contributed to giving us our poets, artists, scientists . . . But youth today has abandoned solitude in favor of pack-running, of predatory assembly, of great collectivities that bury, if they do not destroy, individuality. Into these mindless associations the young flock like cattle. The fee they pay for initiation is abandonment of self and im mersion in the herd . . . This innovation can yield no social gain. For it is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived. In the crowd, herd or gang, it is a mass...
Most of the doctors make such small salaries from government hospitals and the laborers' free-care institutes that they maintain private practices on the side. But with Brazil's spectacular rise in the cost of living, working-class sick or injured now flock to the free-care centers and private practice has sagged...