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...time she was to become strangely grateful for the tragedy. Because of her own handicap, she developed a natural sympathy for children who had also suffered. Eventually she found a way to help them. In 1925 she became the first of New Orleans' "visiting teachers"-a dedicated band of men and women whose duty it is to care for the school system's handicapped and troubled pupils. Last week, as 65-year-old Carmelite Janvier prepared to retire as director of the city's Division of Special Services, she and her colleagues were caring for nearly...
...conference of the leaders of any but the friendliest of nations contains two almost insurmountable handicaps. If final decisions are made, they are often hasty and ill-considered, based sometimes on factors as weak as personal bonds. The papier-mache treaty structure of the decade following the first world war and the conferences of the second, all the result of "high-level conversations," are indisputable proof of this handicap. The second grave defect is that meetings at the summit often will produce only propaganda and enmity. In actuality, the forthcoming four-power meeting will not be mainly among the heads...
...Lugging the top weight in the race (130 Ibs.), King Ranch's brown colt High Gun, competing for the first time this year, worried his backers by swinging wide on the stretch turn, then straightened out to run away from an impressive field and won the Metropolitan Handicap by 4½ lengths at Belmont Park...
What of visiting scholars? "We don't want to handicap scholarship," Metcalf has maintained, "but the University is not in a position to operate a free public library." Yet the Yale PhD. candidate can use Widner for nothing. While the Harvard graduate student must pay $200 for almost identical privileges...
Actually, the present restricted funds handicap some Houses less than others. The most up-to-date libraries need the most money, in order to remain up-to-date. The House which do not try to stay up-to-date do not demand as much, since they do not replenish out-dated books as often. The smallness of the present grant discourages Houses from keeping their books current...