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...which really should be the dictators, are now forced to follow the schools and agree to their ideas. The excuse of the colleges seems only to be that they must obey the schools now, in order that later, when they are allied with them they may be able to stiffen the requirements. Such an answer to as important a problem as this is most unsatisfactory. For is it not conceivable that the eventual result may be that the schools will gradually exert more and more sway over the universities until the latter are no longer able to secure the changes...
...Centro in California's Imperial Valley the temperature last week rose to 122° F. Stepping out of doors was like walking into a blast furnace's draft. Snakes and lizards, whose muscles stiffen with rigor caloris at 104°, died. But insects, which can function at 147°, and animals, with a system of maintaining body temperatures at normal regardless of climate, pursued their ordinary activities, as did the men, women and children of El Centro. Women dressed in organdie; men went without coats. Everyone wore hats to prevent sunstroke. But of heat stroke there was no fear...
Benjamin Hendrick is now 7. When he was two his back began to stiffen. Next year one leg got stiff, making him limp a little, and he grew awkward with his hands. Whenever he cut himself it took a long time for the wound to heal. By the time he got to school, in small Larksville, Pa., he could hardly use his arms at all and his teacher had to help him on with his coat and rubbers. For a while he was sent to a clinic for crippled children, until doctors discovered what was wrong with him. Then they...
When these words of Dr. Piperno's come to his ears- "Questo si fara soffrire un poco" (This is going to hurt a little)- Il Duce does not groan and stiffen his limbs. Instead he merely growls, "Non temo il dolore" (I do not fear pain...
...Spiritualists, a U. S. Group which claims 5,000,000 members. (Representatives of 30,000,000- they say*-world Spiritualists meet in international congress every four years.) The avowed purpose of the General Assembly is to keep spurious mediums out of the ranks. Last week it voted to stiffen examinations and raise qualifications. The convention frowned especially upon "yogis, yamas, gamas and other 'amas...