Word: races
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Rules outlawing jaywalking are odious because they clog the machinery of nature by meddling with the struggle for existence. Hereunto the human race has advanced in wheel-dodging by leaps and bounds. It seems before the new traffic code was adopted, that within another generation the citizen would as deftly sidestep an automobile as he now does a bill collector. But if the race is to be protected, presumably, by such laws, it no one is to be allowed to test his resourcefulness in the face of formidable mechanical foes, if, in a word, jaywalking is to become a lost...
Harvard men are fortunate in this one remaining reminiscence of the warm lustre which once spelled College. The Towers of Oxford have called out from loyal sons and disinterested beauty lovers rhapsodic utterances that have become a part of the race. The beauty that was Cambridge is hardly less dear to those who knew it before all parkways were Metropolitan. But there is a mile of the Charles that forgets its urban surroundings, and is still part of a Harvard education...
Four other women, Hurd, Fraser, Curtis and Hoyt have won the Amateur three times. All of them succeeded for the third time when they were older than Collett, who was born in 1903 on the day her father, a famous bicycle rider, won his greatest race at the Paris Velodrome. Some of the women at Hot Springs would doubtless have liked to be cool to the daughter, my dear, of a man who used to be a bicycle jockey. Glenna, however, dressed more smartly, had better manners than many a woman whose fathers won their money without...
...Hospital. Sloane Maternity, with Presbyterian Hospital and other institutions, makes up Manhattan's splendid new Medical Centre. Negroes have contributed their mites (about $60,000) to that Medical Centre. Presbyterian Hospital, a component, was founded in 1868 to provide medical treatment for all persons without regard to creed, race or any other distinctions. Although Presbyterian Hospital now has no colored people among its board, staff, interns or nurses...
...Largest (278 beds) and most important (research, clinic) of special hospitals for Negroes. Other important race hospitals are: St. Phillips at Richmond, Va., 176 beds; George W. Hubbard at Nashville, Tenn., 140 beds; Mercy at Philadelphia, 100 beds; John C. Andrews Memorial at Tuskegee, Ala., 75 beds...