Word: physicians
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ORIGINALLY, deference to traditional educational patterns was the colleges' response to a skeptical world, in which men like Dr. Edward H. Clarke, a Boston physician and a member of Harvard's Board of Overseers, were writing that education destroyed women's femininity physically as well as socially. Educated women, he wrote, "graduated from school or college excellent scholars, but with undeveloped ovaries. Later they married, and were sterile." The founders of the women's colleges had to contend with the widespread belief that women were too weak for education. Ultimately, their only defense in the hostile climate seemed...
During the four or five years of the first World War, however, the Weils moved about often, following Simone's father to the various outposts where the French Army stationed him. There Simone's mother devoted herself to nursing her physician husband and his comrades. So one could argue (Petrement certainly seems to) that from observing her mother's altruism, the germ of self-sacrifice was planted early in this otherwise normal, gifted child...
Your academic footnote referring to an apocryphal 17th century English court physician, Dr. Condom, brings to mind the shy teen-ager who asked me for a prescription for "condiments" (from the French condire, to pickle, season or add relish to). Gerald C. Freedman, M.D. Mill Valley, Calif...
...Angels. Because burn patients require constant attention, the centers must have large staffs. Nurses must be at bedside 24 hours a day, and at least one physician must always be near by, to say nothing of a host of aides, ranging from cleaners to technicians who prepare the IV fluids. In some hospitals, because of the horrible nature of the injuries, few staff members remain in burn units for more than six months at a time. Those who stay on win the admiration of their colleagues. Says Spokesman Kenneth Dale of the Crozer-Chester Medical Center, a major burn facility...
...still adventuresome. Weil's mind belonged to the classics but her emotions owed much to 19th century romanticism, especially the aspect that substituted the sufferings of the artist for the anguish of the martyr. Simone was born into the French upper-middle class in 1909. Her father-a physician-and her mother had Jewish backgrounds, though they observed no religious ritual or custom. The child never regarded herself as a Jew. Later she rejected the God of the Old Testament as the sanctioner of cruelty and declared, instead, that her tradition was Christian, French and Hellenic. She also regretted...