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...Children. Dr. Alfred Adler, friend and old pupil of Dr. Sigmund Freud,* wrote from Vienna that the spoiled child, the unwanted or illegitimate child and the child of imperfect physique are in danger of developing a feeling of inferiority to the rest of the world. They fail "to develop a social feeling. Social feeling is what enables human beings to survive in this world†. . . . We can now understand why all actions on the useless side of life among problem children, neurotics, criminals, suicides, perverts and prostitutes are caused by a lack in social feeling, courage and self-confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Wittenberg | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...Catholicism, natives of Australia, primitive rites, a heroine of dusky beauty and high intelligence, and yet, strange as it may seem, the hero is a chiropodist. He made his fortune caring for feet in London and the Australian goldfields, and it was with his knives that he later redeemed imperfect pearls at Droone, the mythical antipode where he became a dark little power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Number 100 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...importance. They had heard how he ventured down under the Passaic River's surface in one of his first models, with a boy to steer while he himself manned the pumps. When craft failed to reappear, divers had rescued Inventor Holland and the boy from the river bottom. The imperfect submarine had been hoisted up, dragged ashore, abandoned. Inventor Holland's late fame had obscured the failure of his first experiments. The Passaic River had changed its course, piling silt upon the abandoned hulk which, when salvaged, will now rise to the importance of a major exhibit at the Passaic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Salvage | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

Those who let the jaundice of an imperfect understanding color their views of university education should find here an excellent tonic. If 221 Seniors at Harvard are willing to consider seriously the intellectual advantages of a degree with honors, the number of those in America who would, under similar circumstances of inspiration and freedom, do the name is legion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT | 6/23/1927 | See Source »

Libraries may be million dollar libraries but unless they are habitable they fail in their purpose. Widener is a superb monument, and it is unfortunate that details which might be corrected should render it imperfect. The appearance of the building has been criticized but that does not impair its undoubted efficiency: the present ethereal conditions, however, do. So in addition to sweetness and light, let there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREATHLESS MOMENTS | 12/2/1926 | See Source »

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