Word: timed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside of West Point. Its cadets were still chiefly Southerners, although non-Virginians were admitted at a higher tuition. As freshman hazing victims, they got the habit of calling each other Brother Rat.* Last week the Brother Rats overran Lexington, Va., saw two football games, had a whopping good time at the centennial...
...Colonel Crozet was absent. Graduates had hoped to have his remains enshrined on the campus by centennial time, had sought a permit of exhumation from Shockoe Cemetery in Richmond. Few days before, Elizabeth Wright Weddell, sister of Ambassador to Argentina Alexander Weddell, turned up records of the Colonel's burial (in 1864) in another cemetery. Regretfully, V. M. I. celebrated without its founder, hoped soon to bring him home...
...Only time can prove the value of insulin shock treatment. Most patients remain sane afterwards for at least a year; others, who show no good effects immediately after treatment, may take several months to "ripen" into sanity. Best results occur in young patients, between the ages of 17 and 25. But more stable is the sanity won by persons of more mature age, who do not have to contend again with the psychic hazards of adolescence. For schizophrenia victims who have been ill more than six months, there is little hope, although obstreperous patients may become gentler, more obedient after...
Offered for the first time this year by 78-year-old Dr. Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston (for journalistic achievements promoting public understanding in the Americas), the prizes were presented in Columbia University's Low Memorial Library by President Nicholas Murray Butler. To La Prensa and El Comercio went twin bronze plaques; to Sr. Gollan and Dr. Miro Quesada gold medals...
Thomas Eakins was a realistic painter, Albert Pinkham Ryder a romantic one. But they had a good deal of history in common. Both were born about the time the U. S. fought Mexico, died just before it entered World War I. Neither was popular in his lifetime, though each had tiis small circle of admirers and was elected to the National Academy in his late 50s. Both were moderately well off. And posthumously both rank high in the select assembly of U. S. old masters. Two exhibitions of Eakins' work and one of Ryder's on view...