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Breast v. Bottle. Two years ago, a British journalist named Mike Muller first suggested publicly that powdered-formula manufacturers contributed to the death of Third World infants by hard-selling their products to people incapable of using them properly. In a 28-page pamphlet, Muller accused the industry of encouraging mothers to give up breast feeding, but added the qualification that other factors, such as working at a job, influence women to switch to bottle feeding...
...extraordinary." In 1957 when Pope Pius XII reaffirmed the centuries-old view on "extraordinary" means in an address to anesthesiologists, he included removal of a respirator "to allow the patient who is already virtually dead to pass away in peace." A few years later, a Church of England study pamphlet said all such life-support machines should have only one purpose: to keep vital organs going until doctors can tell whether the organs can ever again function on their...
...think you should print 1500 more issues and send them, with the admission slips, to every incoming freshman. We'll be a lot less nervous and sorry for ourselves. Or maybe print a pamphlet containing these articles. The possibilities are endless and lucrative. Caroline N. Franklin...
...other hand: there are those who think Harvard turns out people, or should turn out people, who are similar, upper middle class bureaucrats. The New American Movement, for instance, a local leftist group, published a pamphlet called Introducing Harvard a few years ago that said: "That is what Harvard trains you for: surviving and rising in the bureaucracy of your choice." Even President Pusey, in his Walter Mittys of the Left speech, saw his mission as bringing radical students into the fold, saying: "Bringing students of this persuasion back to reality presents a new kind of challenge to college education...
...first thing written about Harvard that anyone has been able to dig up is a pamphlet called "New England's First Fruits," apparently designed to entice people into emigrating here. It says the University was founded "to advance learning and perpeutate it to posterity." Years laters Tomas Wolfe's fictional hero, Eugene Gant, came here and started reading books like crazy because "he simply wanted to know about everything on earth; he wanted to devour the earth and it drove him mad when he saw he could not do this." If there was anywhere you'd expect a modern...