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...Mens sana in corpore sana;" cleanliness is next to godliness, and the shower room is next to Ward 3. And what a shower! We believe (and who will disagree?) it is impossible to overstress the importance of perfection in shower fixtures. This shower is just like a woman, one moment hot, the next cold. Possessed of woman's prerogative, it varies in temperature and force. Sometimes it merely ceases to function. Should some one take a glass of water some, where in the building, the shower reflects the fact instanter. Above the cubicle's door one well might read, "Abandon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To the Great Unwashed | 3/24/1934 | See Source »

...clear that these courses deal primarily with grammar and translation; several courses in the other languages which are counted for the literature requirement likewise overstress linguistics. It is obvious that an understanding of the grammar and vocabulary of a language is a necessary prerequisite to a literary appreciation of works read in that language, but the "language requirements" are designed to assure that the student has acquired these elements before his graduation The true appreciation of a literature must include the understanding and enjoyment of the work in the whole and of the literature in its historical and humanistic relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE | 12/8/1932 | See Source »

...obvious That the boy who died might have been the victim of a capricious fate is possible. But it is hardly sane to assume that a suicide, caused by football worries, accompanied, too, by a note wishing the school team well, can be the result of anything but an overstress on the part of the authorities, and a resulting unbalanced sense of relative values on the part of the student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL FATALITIES | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

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