Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group -- a subcommittee made up of six students and one faculty member--also made an independent, but complementary proposal calling for the creation of a Harvard Journal of Legal Reform. All law students would be eligible to write for the Journal without regard to grades or any form of prior competition...
Internal Bleeding. Ulcer patients have long been known to be susceptible to internal bleeding after taking aspirin, but this was assumed to result from what was, in effect, an overdose only for their sensitive stomachs. Not necessarily, two researchers now report in the British Medical Journal. Dr. Desmond Croft and Dr. Philip H. N. Wood gave ordinary doses-the equivalent of twelve aspirins a day for one to four weeks-to 226 people who had no ulcers or any other "stomach trouble." All but nine suffered at least minor bleeding from their stomach walls into the intestines...
...parents of 17-year-old Gustave Flaubert had sneaked a look at their son's private journal, they might never have urged him to study for the law. Fortunately for Flaubert, and for his future readers, he defied his parents and chose to keep on writing...
...journal that traces the origins of that choice has long since disappeared. But in 1960, a grandniece of Flaubert's produced a copy that she had transcribed years before. This first English translation by Flaubert Scholar Francis Steegmuller makes it clear once more that even in his callow teens Flaubert was headed for literary greatness...
...notes, the themes of Flaubert's mature novels "are themes that had already engrossed him in his youthful writings." So too with his experiences. "Emma Bovary's great night of dancing at the C´áteau de la Vaubyessard," for example, is directly traceable to the journal, in which Flaubert reminisces briefly about a ball at the cháteau of the Marquis de Pomereu...