Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your story of Mr. John F. Stevens' recent trip to the Isthmus of Panama (TIME, Feb. 28, p. 10), you say that General Geo. W. Goethals "conquered the greatest foe of his predecessors, yellow fever...
...reformatory. "For of course," Dr. Glueck said, "many of these young men became criminals for lack of knowing anything else to do. On the other hand we find great numbers of the men, at the end of the five-year period back in jail somewhere or in an insane say...
...terrifying or even extraordinary. It does not seem much more sane to find an underlying cause for twenty-six suicides, than to try to prepare vital statistics from twenty-six isolated deaths. Nor are we sure that the percapita suicide pate is higher in colleges now than it was say twenty years ago. It approximates about one suicide to 5,000 students. It is not at all surprising that increase in the gross number of suicides should come with the tremendous increase in the number of students in college. Furthermore, even a per capita increase would not be surprising...
...much less deep-seated reason than most of those advanced, namely--newspaper publicity. During the past decade colleges have become news. Nor has newspaper interest in them helped their reputation. For they have become news much as Peaches Browning and Gertrude Ederle are news. It is nothing new to say that most of the evils of college football can be laid to the newspapers which magnify the sport and deify the players beyond all reason. A Los Angeles newspaper proclaimed Harvard's recent imbroglio in three inch headlines across the front page of an edition on green paper. The whole...
...say that the recent suicides ought not to be seriously considered in the hope of putting a stop to any future occurrences of such sort. We feel merely that the publicity they have received has magnified their importance, and provided manna for alarmists. And it is all because the man in the street is not interested in French requirements or the Tutorial system, but a student suicide is hot stuff, and merely confirms his ideas of college as a haven of hip flasks, atheism, and general immorality...