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Northwestern may train its prodigies minds; it will not be serving their best interests. Perhaps the best solution for the problem of the intellectually advanced student would be to retard him early in his school career rather than to delay his entrance into college after graduation from preparatory school. He would then suffer no loss of interest in intellectual matters when his powers were maturing, and could still enter college with the preparatory class with he graduated, fully equipped to participate in all branches of activity...
...lending; a continuation of our present tariff policy will mean that we shall intensify future depressions, an we have the present one, by attracting gold which the rest of the world can ill afford to lose and by menacing the stability of many weak currencies. In addition, we shall retard the revival of business, because the countries which have been forced off the gold standard or which have had the stability of their currencies seriously threatened, will, even after the revival is under way, not easily obtain credit to but goods from the rest of the world...
President Wilson's was but one of the mighty minds whose disintegration the late Professor Francis Xavier Dercum, Philadelphia neurologist, managed to retard. Of all such cases, and of many a pettier one. Professor Dercum kept records. His filing cabinets, like the files of most physicians, described the secret weaknesses and vices of his clients, became invaluable to historians and blackmailers. Professor Dercum died suddenly last year, as he opened proceedings of the American Philosophical Society(TIME, May 4). He had been forethoughtful. In his will he instructed Mrs. Dercum to destroy every case record...
...strictly educational point of view. Its social functions have tended either to ignore or impede the proper work of the colleges, so that to the average dean fraternities have been objects of toleration rather than causes of complacency. And the era of gold-brick prosperity did little to retard their centrifugal tendencies...
...Alexis Carrel, who has kept a piece of chicken heart growing for 19 years, last week announced his verdict against rejuvenation. Biologists know a great deal now, he wrote, about how people grow old. They probably will learn what is necessary to retard the aging process. But it will be impossible, he declared, to reverse the action...