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Coldest in years has been this Paris winter. But at Physiopolis, undaunted and undressed, a professor's wife kept up until last week her daily regimen of dips in the icy Seine, five-mile walks around the island. Then she bore an 8-lb. baby, named it Physiopolis. It was the colony's first birth, the island's first in 200 years...
...special iniquity of the School is that it takes a large body of men of the most diverse capacities and intentions and submits them all to the same regimen, to a regimen that is cramping, often pedantic, and usually unadjusted to the demands of the modern world. Its state is especially grave because the degree it gives has become a touchstone for academic advancement, an economic necessity for anyone who wishes to teach. Hence the minds of students all over the country are entrusted to men who, if not actually given false standards by the Ph.D. training, have at least...
Under the present regimen, a college or university which wishes to dispense beers and ales is treated as if it were an ordinary commercial and profit-making source of supply. But the mere fact that beer is sold is not decisive; the relation of a university to its students is categorically different from that of a tradesman to his customers, and the difference ought to be recognized in the law. As for the stipulation that beer cannot be sold to those under twenty-one years of age, it has proved not only harassing to the legal advisers of the University...
...dust cover blurbs, eclectic modern poetry, and rumbling Broadway controversies. Had he been able, for example, as a senior, to supplement his thesis and tutorial stack-work with an intelligent course in modern literary trends and criticism he would probably never have to seek shelter in the almost religious regimen of the Book of the Month Club...
Health Hostels. Lord Dawson called attention to a much neglected type of sick man. His doctor may have prescribed for his defects. But, noted Lord Dawson, "the mere giving of medicines will often accomplish but little. What the patient wants is regimen and re-education in methods of living; treatment, it may be by diet, physicotherapy. and relaxation under controlled observation. Such treatment or education of the man and his tissues might take several weeks, and in most instances it would be advantageous for such patients to continue their ordinary avocations. We need a new type of institution?distinct from...