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There are 44,885 deaf mutes in the U.S.?425 per million population. Total deafness, however, is rare. Even among these unfortunate mutes, from 15 to 20% have a useful amount of hearing. Affliction of the ear, found in innumerable forms and degrees, is commonly caused by scarlet fever, measles, tooth-cutting, catarrh, loud noises, old age. There have been occasional cases of apparent total deafness, arising from an unknown cause, which disappeared after a few years in a manner equally mysterious...
Evidences of quaint drollery, subtle humor, and even boisterous merriment in some of the most austere Victorians are aptly shown in this week's Widener room display of original and unpublished manuscripts. A number of rare pieces by famous nineteenth century authors are on exhibition which give an insight into an unexpected facetiousness...
...speeches of Professor Scott Nearing and Mr. Clarence S. Darrow this afternoon offer Harvard men an opportunity which is unfortunately rather rare. Between indifference chiefly and mild opposition, radical opinions have little representation at the University. The suggestion that Professor Nearing and others should be invited to the Union platform caused heated dispute last year, to be settled finally by compromise; but the nominal admission of the value of open discussion means little. Men may admit that they only source of truth is the free clash of opposing views; yet it is only when conflicting theories are fairly heard...
...rare, in America, for a man to carry academic interests into politics, yet Governor Scrugham, a professor by occupation, has served science in politics...
Clever satire is rare enough in these days to merit special recognition. In the article reprinted below, the New Student has used it to strike a sure deft blow against all that is illiberal and cheap in American college journalism. It is a fact that many college editors prostitute their intellectual standards and their literary skill to "exhorting application to study, denouncing unmoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass." When modern education allows such inanity to flourish about its inmost shrine there is some reason for Mr. Upton Sinclair...