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...decision to the appropriate muscles. When he wishes to straighten the finger, other nerves carry the decision to the other set of muscles concerned. Professor Sherrington discovered that during either of these movements the inactive muscles are not merely passively relaxed, but are actually inhibited so that they are slacker than when the finger is at rest. By such systematic studies he has made neurology a highly scientific, probably the most scientific and dependable, subdivision of Medicine. At 71, loaded with a dozen nations' honors, he is extraordinarily plain and humble. For avocation he writes poetry...
Worst of all, a good many Frenchmen who had vaguely heard of "The Man in the White Tie" understood that during the War he was a slacker and afterwards a Communist. In 1914, being already Mayor of the proletarian Paris suburb of Aubervilliers. he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his old constituents as a Socialist. He did not enlist in the Army. When drafted he served briefly at the front as a common poilu. His Socialist views caused him to orate directly after the War against the Treaty of Versailles. In 1919 he lost his seat...
...posed the question, "A Dollar For Dole-Or An Hour Of Work?", a question looming larger & larger before the country as the convening of Congress approaches. Mr. Macauley found the root of Depression in the unemployed dollar, "the dollar that is afraid to venture forth. . . . When the slacker dollar goes to work, men will go to work and not before...
...that occur only too often in the case of students in any college of today has been laid on many and varied doorsteps. The colleges themselves have been criticized, both for not being liberal enough to the earnest scholar and at the same time not strict enough with the slacker. President Lowell last year arraigned the preparatory schools for sending their graduates on to the higher institutions improperly trained. Athletics, extra-curriculum, activities and social diversions have all come in for their share of the responsibility. In an article in the current Atlantic Monthly quoted elsewhere in this issue...
...meeting at Round Lake, N. Y.: "The people will not let their constitution be wickershamed into a squatter sovereignty hodgepodge. . . . Maryland, Wisconsin and New York are where South Carolina was in the conflict against the abolition of slavery. . . . They are the copperhead and slacker states and are more culpable in time of peace than any slacker citizen in time...