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Today psychiatrists all over the U.S. turn down from 6 to 9% of recruits as mentally unsound; they hope to keep out of the armed forces a total of 500,000 potential mental cases. The proportion of psychiatric to physical casualties, said Dr. Arthur Hiler Ruggles, the Association's president, may be cut from 30% to as low as 15%. But the 2,500 U.S. psychiatrists are not enough to examine an army of 6,000,000 men, especially since the doctors already have their hands full with 600,000 civilian cases. Some of the doctors suggested last week...
Unwarranted and unsound, the ban on corsages imposed by two House winter dance committees threatens the livelihood of the florists of Harvard Square. To the committees, "no corsages" are a part of a promotional stunt. That stunt, to us, is a matter of life and death. In place of a corsage, there is a compulsory inclusion in the ticket price of a payment toward a defense bond lottery...
This is to register a protest against your editorial in praise of a proposed scheme to distribute bonus payments in form of non-transferable five year bonds to the trainees now in service. To me your position seems altogether unsound...
...good reliable ghost, a Family Curse is one of the most hallowed appurtenances of British nobility. Last week a fine old Family Curse made a fine news story. Twenty-year-old Viscount Lambton, son and heir of the 5th Earl of Durham, lay dead by "suicide while of unsound mind," according to a coroner's jury. The folk of Northumberland knew that the Curse of the Worm had struck again...
...Representatives is now set by law at 435. So if one State, through population gains, is to gain a seat in the House, another must lose a seat. Losing States must be convinced by a display of clear-cut mathematical theory that their losses are just. Formulas based on unsound mathematics have often led Congress into errors...