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...dissolved by any pigment, whether it be red or merely a rosy pink. So until New England has forgotten the strain of her ancestors, the persecutors of Hester Prynne, she will continue to confuse issues and to forget, the phrase on the cacutcheon--"Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense...
...class physician, was called. He did not criticise the parents for calling the other. He simply said: "Dr. Jones knows something about the disease he thinks is afflicting little Freddie ; but he doesn't know Freddie." And Freddie was an important factor in the case. Honi soit qui mal y pense. Perhaps Mr. Hibben knows much, very much, about the weakness he ascribes to Henry Ward Beecher; he certainly does not know Mr. Beecher...
...thousand at the proper time, --the birth of the young subject. Dean Gauss is to be congratulated, however, on bringing up and advancing valuable suggestions on the other side of the problem, --not how to keep out men ill-suited for college or how to wood out cases of mal-adjustment once in, but means by which those most intimately in touch with the individual can make the decision...
...Lewis articles in the Post quickly disposed of Novelist Lewis, the "romantic" figure, by revealing that he had never before been up in an airplane. At the Berlin flying field, "everything in life be came wildly different from the nor mal, mousy existence of a literary gent mooching about his garden or his words." flat, writing words, words...
...suicide"--and there will be those who will deny that he has failed --is in his segregating a student from the general classification of youth. Education, however profound, however inspiring, can never hope to cope with the vagaries of the adolescent mind. In the nineteenth century it was called mal de siecle, mal de Rene, Werther-sickness--any number of names. Today it bears the label of "student suicide", probably because the public is now interested in students or at least in thousands of boys and girls who are termed students. But even before the advent of science, this disease...