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...their way from the nose and throat they may carry infections causing what is called lipoid (fatty) pneumonia. Death in infants usually results from a secondary pneumonic infection. "Infants," said Dr. Rice, " may recover and general health may improve under proper management, although a residual pneumonic process may persist indefinitely." To prevent such accidents, Dr. Rice advised doctors and parents "not to give oily nose drops to a struggling, rebellious infant." Dr. Bela Schick, child specialist on whom Dr. Rice called for an opinion, "prohibits the use of oils in the noses of infants." Dr. Charles Hendee Smith, another specialist...
...offense against temperance was trivial compared with that for wearing gold braid. "If any Scholar shall be guilty of Drunkenness, he shall be fined one shilling and sixpence or he shall make a public confession or be degraded, according to the Aggravation of the Offense. And if any Scholar persist on a course of Intemperance, he shall be Rusticated or Expelled...
...other hand, two types of travelogues--both of tropical savor--are offered for the moviegoer. Rather mediocre is "Damascus and Jerusalem," which covers ancient ground in very old fashion. By now the public should be filled to the point where it suffers pain with travelogues which persist in presenting new lands from the same outlook. Although this does not commit the mistake of Fitpatrick productions, which Mr. Fitzpatrick always concludes with a mournful "We take a reluctant leave of the fair city of So and So," it clearly bares the need for something new in this kind of film entertainment...
...convention came out flat-footedly against "spiritually destructive methods of raising money," such as church card parties and dances, by approving the American Missions Board's decision to withdraw support from 575 mission churches if they persist in so raising funds...
...things past from his school-days, which now glow with all the romance natural to retrospection, for the book is learned and scholarly, as indeed it should be to justify its membership as Volume 25 in the Harvard Studies in Education. Yet all readers will find sufficient, if they persist, to hold their eye to the page, even if the history of the school is in the last analysis, somewhat monotonous because, in the words of Mr. George Santayane, it has been constant, through those three hundred years, to one purpose and function. Still the moral to be drawn from...