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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stookey has come many a case of paralysis rendered incurable by ignorant handling of the patient at the scene of the accident. Hoping to prevent such needless damage. Dr. Stookey this week issued new pictures (see cuts) and advice which first-aid manuals, including that of the Boy Scouts, lack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: First Aid to Spines | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...easiest way of working out degree requirements would be to lower the necessary courses to eleven, but demand that these should all be advanced. Elementary courses would not count toward the degree, and would only be taken by four-year men whose lack of school preparation demanded it. In this manner a comprehensible choice would be given to incoming Freshmen which would entail no useless friction and frantic decisions followed by summer school sessions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EACH ACCORDING TO HIS POWERS | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...amateur football has been wobbling dangerously of late, but few of its enemies have expressed the desire to topple it over in the crude manner of the undergraduates at Charlottesville. It is one thing to call a spade a spade, but quite another to show Virginia's complete lack of respect for the other side of the question. That university should realize that the remedy for a poor football team is to concentrate upon the development of a better one and not the attitude of many American schools who desire to have "the best team money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APOSTASY IN THE OLD DOMINION | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

With all of Macheth's lack of conviction the Virginia paper is trying to soften its blow by making a distinction between "athletic scholarships" and "money payments". There can be no such distinction in a world of reality. A woman can not be half a virgin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APOSTASY IN THE OLD DOMINION | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

...shibboleth of "national honor", all combine to warp the individual's judgment, especially in times of tension. The effect a single person can exercise in molding public opinion is pitifully small, so that the wish a person may have to be a force for peace is hampered by lack of knowledge of how to go about it, and by a feeling of futility in not getting very much done. Yet the most effective method of keeping the peace that has been devised so far, is to educate people not in the horrors of war, but in the opportunities that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEACE ON EARTH | 11/12/1936 | See Source »

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