Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sine qua non for a rise in the standards of national health. Only through well-equipped clinics, which in many cases will have to receive state subsidies, can our humbler citizens afford expert, specialized consultation. Those who furiously denounce all group practice as "undemocratic" and "socialistic" are still living in the Horse and Buggy Days. Only by efficient, economical use of the new weapons at its disposal can the medical profession march on to new triumphs in its ceaseless struggle against disease...
...solution to the problem comes under two heads. The first of these is the long-run, permanent solution. Sometime in the near future, Harvard must institute detailed supervision of tutoring schools. These may still remain under private ownership and operation. However, they must be made to comply to standards of the most rigorous variety which will be set for them by the University. They should be strictly limited in their functions to tutoring of a legitimate sort--legitimate here meaning aid in cases of illness and aid to slow students who have honest difficulties in their courses...
...THEY STILL SAY No-Wells Lewis-Farrar & Rineharf...
Readers' first question about They Still Say No will be: How does it compare with the early novels of Sinclair Lewis (the author's father)? Sinclair Lewis' only child by his first wife, Wells Lewis, 21, a senior at Harvard, is a slender, sandy-haired, better-looking but less vigorous, less radical edition of his father...
...well-written story of minor moment, laid at Harvard and in Mexico (where Wells Lewis has spent the last few summers), They Still Say No concerns the sex life of a Harvard undergraduate. Hero is a tall, dapper, literary innocent named Crane Stewart. Engaged to a cautious girl named Julia, Crane harkens to the lusty bad advice of his pal Jeff, frightens Julia away in a blundering attempt at seduction. At a Park Avenue party, with a girl who is willing, luck is again against him. That summer he goes to Mexico to visit his uncle, falls in love with...