Word: various
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came away with a bright memory of a "lot of girls." But they are mighty aged girls for a' that. The Sister who cooks is around 80, and she told me gleefully of the monster turkey somebody had sent for Thanksgiving. How she kept dishing it up in various guises for a week. She laughed till her false teeth-if you ever beheld 'em!-fell down. Every time I think of convents, it renews my faith in human laughter. FATHER WILL WHALEN Old Jesuit Mission, Orrtanna, Pa. Father Whalen recently wrote a short story about a mediocre actress...
...South America with out the treaty we could continue to do with the treaty. This last statement was typical of the entire debate, the strategy of which consisted chiefly in asking Sena tor Borah hypothetical questions about what would or would not happen, according to the treaty, in various assumed cases of international complications. Inasmuch as other signatories would presumably be equally unhandicapped, the treaty's value as a war-preventative became entirely shadowy...
Budget: As usual Mr. Gilbert finds that the German Finance Ministry is "still under the influence of tendencies toward overspending and overborrowing. . . . The situation is one which bristles with difficulties." He again recommends a complete overhauling of the system whereby the various states of the German Republic still balance their budgets with funds contributed from the National Treasury...
...exposed to the experimental method and to a rigorous criticism, and for that the men who carry on the work must be able to enjoy the kind of leisure and intellectual fellowship that it is the business of a university to provide. Psychopathology requires contact with all the various attitudes of academic psychology, the sensational, introspective, 'gestalt' and behaviouristic. Just as pathology has come to rest upon normal physiology, so must psychopathology rest upon normal psychology. As there is no course of psychology in the Medical School, it is appropriate that psychology be made a part of the college...
...present time, the scores in the various classes of the Massachusetts Squash League show that Harvard University is fifth out of six contestants in Class A, in which the Harvard Club leads. In Class B, the University leads a field of ten. In Class C, the University is next after the Freshmen and the Harvard Club, which are tied for first place among 12 entries...