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...Summer prize in political science of $450 was awarded to Manes Specter, candidate for a Ph. D. in government, for the best dissertation dealing with the prevention of war. The Toppan prize of $200, in political science, was awarded to Oliver Garceau, who received a Ph. D. in political science in February...
...efforts to spread the gospel of "cleanness and hardness," strip the weakling before an open window, force him to repeat the Apostles' Creed. Other developments: abortive homosexuality; a movement to crucify a boy who is suspected of being a Jew; ruinous invention of rumors about English Master George Toppan's misconduct with the headmaster's niece...
...Even Toppan, the best of them, can scarcely establish connection with the most intelligent of his boys. The implied conclusion: boarding schools, as an environment, are favorable chiefly to dolts and safe-players...
Usually Nurse Toppan's victims were her patients, but she had a habit of giving them less-than-lethal doses to prolong their illnesses if she liked working for them. One day in 1901, her old friend Mrs. Alden P. Davis came to visit her, died in convulsions after dinner. Nurse Toppan accompanied the body to the Davis home at Cataumet. When people came with flowers (Nurse Toppan later said), "I wanted to say to them: 'You had better wait and in a little while I will have another funeral for you.'" Sure enough, within 40 days...
Four deaths in 40 days were too many even in 1901. The police took Nurse Toppan. In her confession she said she had murdered "for the fun of it." At the insane asylum she became a model inmate, but at first they had to put her in a strait jacket and force-feed her. She thought someone was trying to poison...