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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several years ago to pay taxes on a large part of the University plant in Cambridge. In any case it is difficult to see why individual members of the faculty should be forced to make good the alleged remissness of the Harvard Corporation, especially since the majority of them live in Cambridge and are taxed accordingly...
...Episcopal), wrote Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, warden of St. Stephen's College (Columbia University's up-the-Hud-son offspring). Dr. Bell had what he called "a modest proposal" to make. Let the bishops, said he, get all candidates for holy orders to sign a pledge to "live a life of self-sacrifice," putting themselves at the bishop's disposal for five years, to go wherever he should direct. Living conditions might be hard, salaries low. Candidates would promise not to marry or become engaged without the bishop's consent...
...masculine profession, with all its risks." ¶ "Home delivery, even under the poorest conditions, is safer than hospital delivery." ¶ "Six thousand women die annually in the U. S. from puerperal infection." ¶ "In the ten largest [U. S.] cities hospitalization now ranges between 56% and 85% of all live births. The majority of [the nation's] births, however, still take place at home, 1,500,000 out of the 2,200,000 annually." ¶ "These statements certainly are astonishing. However, if we would really adopt the opinion that the increasing hospitalization of parturient women is not an improvement...
...been shot instead. Garry had been ready enough to die for Ireland; his night with Tulloolagh had rather shaken him; and now this final anticlimax upset him further. The Irish Republican Army disbanded. Her days of dangerous disguise at an end. Tulloolagh hoped Garry would marry her and live peacefully in the country. But Garry had tasted true happiness when he was facing death; he wanted it again. With wild Irish asceticism he dedicated himself to share "the little, ludicrous tragedies of the world...
...best laugh lines in Of Thee I Sing concerned Calvin Coolidge. One was the remark of the secretary in the White House who picks up the telephone receiver and announces: 'The Coolidges don't live here any more...