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...pledge of allegiance is of course simply mumbo jumbo (a relic of Feudal days, when a pledge was supposed to have some magic in it) which can be of no use in this connection; for it would not make out of the disloyal teacher a patriot, nor is it necessary in order to take such a teacher to book when he does violate the constitution. It is simply a waste of effort, time and money, aside from causing friction and consuming energy needed in productive work...
President Conant has pointed out that the job of preventive medicine is to prevent medicine. The health schools of the nation struggle to wipe out disease and illness so that the doctor will become a relic of by-gone days. One Boston physician was so perturbed by this possibility that he devoted much of his life to campaigning against public health schools, fearing all the while he would be out of work if they were successful. Only through such a varied and complex list of projects does the school expect to lick the causes of disease and end it before...
Betsy Hubbard '55 and Francis J. O'Neil '53 are shown searching for ideas in the Houghton Library relic collection for the Dramatic Club's forthcoming production of "Othello...
...orphans-who would most likely have died if Mrs. Ahn had not taken her in. The U.N. Civil Assistance Command has been looking after the Ahns for a couple of years; the kids are outfitted in olive-drab pants. Mrs. Ahn wears a dogskin neckpiece, a relic of the old days, of which she is very fond; at 31, a widow in a country where widows are unwanted, Mrs. Ahn has not much to look forward to, but if she can find her father, they will make a home...
...Alexander I, the Blessed Czar of all the Russias, danced in this room after having defeated the armies of Bonaparte in the Patriotic War." When his second wife tried to rip it down, Stalin said: "I'm a Georgian, so I must show great respect for all the relics of Russian history." One Bolshevik relic, the embalmed body of Lenin, is now a fake, says Budu. When the real body began to deteriorate rapidly at the beginning of World War II, Stalin was afraid the people would "take it as a bad sign." A perfect likeness was made...