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...outbreak of the Spanish-American War, a struggling, six-year-old magazine gave a piece of stern advice to U.S. women: "Don't be so violently, alarmingly and visibly patriotic as to wear the tri-colors on everything. Bad taste never yet helped a good cause...
...reasons not merely financial, the new plan seems ill advised. The spirit of piety does not demand that undergraduates be tagged as "Protestants," "Jews," or "Seculars." PBH's religion should be non-denominational, not tri-denominational as Hastie would make...
Victims of mental illness have had many champions since 1795, when Philippe Pinel boldly bucked the revolutionary city government of Paris and began to treat inmates of the Salpétriére as human beings rather than criminals or animals. But the bedlams of the 1800s gave way only to the unspeakable "back wards" of the 1900s, where men, women and children languished in filth and darkness. Now, many states in the U.S. are striving to live down that shame. As late as 1948, Indiana ranked 40th among the states, judged by the crude yardstick, of the amount...
Mountain Day was first started at Smith College to give the young ladies an outing in the beautiful New England autumn to frollo in the mountains and country-side. Now, with mass transportation, it has become an annual exodus to the men's colleges in the tri-state area...
Mainland papers recently smuggled out to Hong Kong indicated, however, that several million farmland acres were flood ed along the central Yangtze valley, that the 98-ft. dikes at Wuhan (pop. 1,000,-000), the tri-city of Hankow, Hanyang-and Wuchang, were under heavy pressure. Last month the Communists finally admitted that 600,000 "flood fighters" had been rounded up to work on the Yangtze dikes-more than 100,000 of them inside Hankow, where Red loudspeakers blared stirring martial music and Communist propaganda pep talks...