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...state of mind of the teachers is even worse. While the pupils at least took part of the blame for their apathy, "only one teacher even insinuated that the faculty might not always be blameless. The most alarming symptom was [the teachers'] fatalistic attitude toward pupil deficiencies and derelictions. The charge most frequently lodged against pupils for not studying, for instance, was 'they don't know how to study.' The tone of the accusation and of the teachers' elaboration on it was one of resignation to fate, of washing their hands of responsibility . . . Until teachers...
These last years were also important for Freud's personal work; in this period he wrote, Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Group Psychology; Inhibition, Symptom, and Anxiety; his Autobiography, Lay Analysis; The Future of an Illusion; Civilization and its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures; Why War?, and Moses and Monotheism. This record of production is made even more impressive by the fact that the last sixteen years of his life were made physically miserable by cancer of the jaw, for which he underwent 33 operations. Freud had to wear a prosthesis, an artificial palate, which could never be made to fit comfortably...
...kind of caper-cutting that previous generations took for a healthy sign of youthful high spirits-and sometimes mistook for a symptom of intellectual fire-has lost much of its appeal. There are some high jinks, but today's students go steady, marry early, refuse to worship the football hero, mostly leave the cheering of teams to the alumni. "Such irrational actions as riots are too much of a risk," says William Zabel, president of Princeton's debating society. "Anything you do out of the ordinary brings ridicule...
...effectiveness of folic acid, another vitamin, in treating several forms of anemia, including early cases of pernicious anemia. Next, at the University of Havana's Calixto Garcia Hospital, he gave folic acid to victims of tropical sprue, a wasting, debilitating deficiency disease of which anemia is one symptom. Again, patients got better as though by magic. The burden of Spies's current work in Havana and San Juan: to defeat tropical sprue by prevention...
...doctor thought he saw a disturbing symptom. When he was a college lad, "the four-minute mile was as unlikely as flying to the moon." but nowadays it is only a little better than par for the course. "The recent rash of four-minute milers is no coincidence," darkly concluded Dr. Herbert Berger, chairman of New York State Medical Society's Subcommittee on Addiction to Alcohol and Narcotics, as he stood last week before this year's convention in New York City of the American Medical Association (see MEDICINE...