Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admitted that scholasticism is inevitably associated with a gloomy atmosphere, still there is no adequate reason why students should be deprived of sufficient oxygen to maintain their health and comfort. To be cruclly specific--the air in certain parts of Widener Library, notably the upper and lower reading rooms, is a thing of wonder: it gives rise to thoughts concerning medieval dungeons, and suspicions to the effect that ventilating systems sometimes do everything but ventilate. With all the clever conceits of modern architecture one might reasonably suppose that a pure environment could be provided for those whose...
...present trend means that our future population will be produced from the lower social and economic groups. The question much discussed by eugenic experts and by economists at present is whether this shift in racial stock will make any difference in the quality of the people of the next generation. It revives the old issue of the comparative influence of environment and heredity...
...Lower House will probably be re-elected in time to convene both houses in January, and the veteran Premier of Hungary, Count Stephen Bethlen, whose cabinet has stood rock-founded since 1922, is expected to force a decision as to the future King of Hungary early next year...
...found in another portion of his own report. "Twelve years ago at Vassar the only mention of the child in the catalogue was a reference in the sociology department to the delinquent and dependent, and in a course in psychology describing the study of mental development in lower animals and children." The cause for the evil may prove its cure. If, as some claim emphasis on scientific and hence materialistic life has been unfortunate for the spiritual state of the modern child, then careful examinations of present conditions and a consequent improved understanding of the case may bring the child...
Although I now realize that a judicious absence of clothes makes the heart of the Five-Cent Public grow warmer and that the catering to such people in such a way is probably not uncommon in the lower journalistic circles, I must state that I was disagreeably surprised and shocked to discover that the CRIMSON would commit a similar breach of newspaper ethics. The writer of your editorial, I am forced to assume, willfully concealed all knowledge of my article as submitted and concealed it in order to score in a manner which, even in terms of the printed article...