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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigative measures were instigated by the difficulties of the present senior class in meeting expenses for the publication of the "Forty and Nine," class yearbook...
Bloomers & Doctors. Goucher College (present enrollment: 740) had a tradition all its own. It was the first women's college in the U.S. to establish a department of physiology and hygiene; its alumnae were among the first women ever accepted at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. It encouraged other innovations, Goucher had its bloomer girls when bloomers were still a shocking novelty. Nowadays its students take only three courses at a time, are tested not merely on the facts they know but on such broader matters as their understanding of scientific method, their enjoyment of art, their grasp...
...Present-day Western civilization, says Sir Heneage, has made it hard to make proper use of the mind. Man was better off in the Middle Ages, when he had a better chance of 1) a job that demanded individual skill, 2) some security, and 3) a sense of doing something useful in the community. Modern man has been straining so long after success, often doing a job he dislikes, that the strain has become second nature. Men of today, says Ogilvie, "are so constantly keyed up to fight the world that is trying to tread them down that they...
...story edifice with 13½ acres of floor space, Burbidge shrewdly allowed for expansion by letting out the top floors as flats. Of the ten flats that are left, the largest belongs to his grandson Sir Richard Burbidge, Bt., who was born there and grew up to be the present managing director. Several hours a day, Sir Richard leaves his office and patrols his domain, correctly clad in striped trousers and short coat, and wearing a bowler hat to keep from being mistaken for a floorwalker...
Discussing the "Prospects for New England," Harris said the number of people in the area may fall from the present 15 million to three million, because of the nation's general population shift westward and the fact that domestic trade to and from the northeast states must pass through strong competing areas...