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These people are ignorant of the law. It is true that the Romans observed the law that their language so nobly expresses ; true that the Code Napoleon is strict in its provisions protecting the dead from defamation; true that in Italy a man can protect in court the good name...
Mr. Vanderbilt's gift, according to Dr. Rackemann, "marks a new era in medical education. It is a part of the general movement for the prevention rather than the cure of disease. The Greeks and the Romans depended on their gymnasiums and baths to keep them well, because these were...
More adept than even Darius were the Romans in exploiting the curious raptures which affect men upon seeing great animals loose and hungry. Their circuses sprang up, like huge granite toadstools, in every shamble of the later Empire. After they had observed the antics of the Huns who invaded Italy...
In his report on the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, which was circulated in 600 daily newspapers, Dr. Straton denounced the match as a "fraud and a relapse into Paganism" and compared it to the gladiatorial fights which debauched the Romans.
Frequently the notes cover the whole blank margins of a page, sometimes running over onto the next one, with pungent criticism of the author's statements. Others are briefer, as "Whoo!" at one place, and "Abaurd" at another or "What can be allude to here?" At another place he notes...