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Even if the vision is imperfect, there is some public consciousness of what the President's voyage to South America, might mean. That hypothetical entity known as the man in the street would probably say that it was a further attempt to create a new balance in the New World to rectify the Old. Such glowing phraseology, however, does more to obscure than to instruct. What the New World is very much concerned about is its own inviolability. It might, indeed, be called a policy of enlightened selfishness. Certainly the great stake this nation has in keeping the Western Hemisphere...
Pseudo-hermaphrodites are much more frequent than true ones. In them the glands are of a sex opposite from the person's general character and configuration. The genitalia may be a confusion of imperfect male & female parts. These defects may sometimes be remedied by surgeons to bring the pseudohermaphrodite into line with its glandular sex. In no case on record, though, has the patient subsequently succeeded in producing a child. In glandular males, undescended testicles are brought from the abdomen into the scrotum. If a phallus exists, bound down by adhesions or imbedded in flesh, delicate plastic work...
...piston one square inch in cross section, the force transferred through the liquid to a 1,000 sq. in. piston is 100,000 lb. The catch is that to make apparatus able to stand such a stress is a delicate, costly and patience-taxing business. If the reinforcement is imperfect or if the materials are not the best in the tiny arena where the gigantic crush is finally focused, steel is likely to bulge like butter. Squeezed by 300 tons per sq. in., some of the contraction of a substance is due to a shrinkage of the atoms themselves...
...statement issued by the University merely stated, "Professor Mather has taken the oath of allegiance. His oath has been forwarded to the Commissioner considers it to be technically imperfect, Professor Mather's attention will be called to this fact...
...plan advocated by the CRIMSON-requiring the comprehensive English examination, the scholastic aptitude test, and a careful scrutiny of the applicant's school record-is admittedly imperfect. Ideally, as stated before, "if a similar broad examination were to be given in every subject, the entrance system would be adjusted as nearly as possible to the methods of teaching at Harvard." Nevertheless the CRIMSON believes that all advance should not wait upon perfection. The preparatory schools, if freed from the incubus of the examinations, would be able to improve their teaching in accordance with modern developments...