Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Bughousers. In every mental institution where Maine was later caged-private, state and veterans' (before Veterans Administrator Omar Bradley's regime)-he found attendants almost uniformly brutal and degraded. As one patient observed, they were mostly "yeggs, fruits, hopheads, ex-convicts . . . drunks, common thieves." They specialized in...
As an attendant himself, first at a private institution and then at a huge VA mental hospital, Maine was so horrified at the treatment of patients that his own inner conflicts came to seem insignificant. He finally blamed the universal system of neglect less on attendants than on a public...
As Franklin P. Adams learnedly lamented in a recent article, the study of Latin "In this broad land . . . is in cups favlliarum." For this reason, perhaps, many students are inclined to pass over the Classics and their offerings both to concentrators and to those who are merely seeking a good...
Skirting the fundamental deficiencies which prevent the House Plan from fulfilling its design, the University's $6000 allocation to each House for permanent physical improvements nevertheless represents a concrete step toward conquering the epithet of "glorified dormitories." The stated purpose of the expenditure is to "improve the livability" of the...
"A Free and Responsible Press" may be employed very skillfully by those totalitarians who desire neither a free nor a responsible press. Rather than permit these people to use it as a weapon with which to throttle a democratic institution, intelligent leaders of the American press should take to heart...