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...Maternal Health. In 1895, said he, he had quizzed 50 couples of high intelligence, found that one pair in five had consummated their marriage before the ceremony. In 1930 he had questioned 50 more couples, found the ratio grown to one in three. This year he had repeated his quiz once more. Every other couple, he learned, were as good as married. Conference air grew tense as slim, spry Dr. Dickinson declared: "The doctors are too timid to face the situation. These couples are not promiscuous. Only three had gone beyond the one man-one woman relationship. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scholars on Sex | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...millions out of the hundreds of millions he made from the World War) for hospitalization of the war wounded. But probably Eugene Schneider and Francois de Wendel are lovable old gentlemen who weep at a Chopin ballade. If an Advance Angel of Judgment should undertake today to quiz the De Wendels of Eugene Schneider on the others of their business they would unquestionably answer; (a) they didn't invent the passions and cupidities that lead to war, (b)if they didn't supply the demand for armaments someone else would, and (c)they inherited the business, anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMS AND THE MEN | 5/25/1934 | See Source »

...course consists of two lectures per week, a 20-minute quiz followed by a question-all in the section meeting on Friday, and "three hours" of laboratory work. The lectures are interesting from the point of view of their content, but for little else. The lecturer is dull, albeit rather easily followed when it comes to taking notes. The table experiments, however, usually make up for this, except when some assistant has prepared them incorrectly and they fail to respond according to Hoyle. The quizzes themselves, coming always as regularly as Fate, are taken entirely from the two lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...course consists of two lectures per week, a 20-minute quiz followed by a question-all in the section meeting on Friday, and "three hours" of laboratory work. The lectures are interesting from the point of view of their content, but for little else. The lecturer is dull, albeit rather easily followed when it comes to taking notes. The table experiments, however, usually make up for this, except when some assistant has prepared them incorrectly and they fail to respond according to Hoyle. The quizzes themselves, coming always as regularly as Fate, are taken entirely from the two lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Continues Confidential Guide Preparatory to Filing of Study Cards | 4/21/1934 | See Source »

...Critic, as has been mentioned before died an unfortunate death. Rumors that it may perpetrate a resurrection about its sex quiz may bear some truth, but the defalcation of that sheet to its subscribers and the abortive miscellany of their earlier efforts prove any future ghostings to be but echoes in their plastered tomb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD LIBERAL | 3/27/1934 | See Source »

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