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ACROSS
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Right, abbrevia-
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King
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Prince of Den-
tion.
5.
Old time, or per-
mark.
28.
The God Pan, half
sons.
7.
“I could not
man, half
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To grow exhausted.
say
29.
As You Like
8.
Large English es-
When they did say,
30.
A thief.
tates.
‘God bless us.' ”
33.
Muck About
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French word for
Mackbeth.
Nothing.
“in”.
11.
Daughter of Po-
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Elder son of Isaac
10.
A follower of Fal-
lonius.
and Rebekah.
staff. v
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Indifference of
Genesis
Mem; Wives of
choice. ”
35.
Officer attending
Windsor ■'
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Beau, a cour-
on Macbeth.
12.
To affect with pain.
tier.
36.
“O, that this too,
18.
Same as 33 across.
Ask You Like It
too.l solid flesh
21.
Ancient to Othello.
15.
A Lord of Naples.
would 111.”
23.
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Tempest
Hamlet
25.
A perch, as for
17.
• * Khayyam.
37.
John Morton, Bish-
fowels at.night.
19.
A simple Consta-
op of.
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To cook in an oven.
ble. *
King Richard III
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An object of pas-
Measure for Me as-
DOWN
sionate devotion.
ure
1.
A schoolmaster.
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A type off Cap.
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A transient style.
Loves Labor Lost
32.
Modification of col-
22.
“To be _ not' to
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A Curlish Philoso-
or.
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pher.
33.
Goddess that in-
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Friend to Antony.
Timon of Athens
cites bloodshed.
Antony and Cleo-
3.
A sister institu-
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patra
tion. (Initials)
Literary Symposium
Thoughts In A
Psychology
Classroom
Someone is always writing about
thoughts in a psychology classroom
and if you have ever taken a course
in psychology, you, without a doubt,
know why. There was a time when
the chief source of college frustation
might have been traced to classes in
religion or philosophy and attributed
to an inability to coincide new beliefs
with old ones or to keep religion and
science in parallel paths and out of
conflict. But this is a new era and
a new frustration is springing from
the class of psychology.
This new frustration is peculiar in
that it is born of one’s inability to
find consolation inasmuch as all of
his hiding places have been exposed
and labeled escape mechanisms. In
other courses when one is pressed for
explanation of failure to turn in Work,
insufficiency of facts, or even of us
ing “little helps” during examina
tions, one can generally slip into an
other field and claim difference in in
terests and conflict of precepts. The
science professors burst forth in ve
hement exclamations against the theo
logians and conversely the theologians
exclaim tirades against the agnostic
science professors while the student
having absolved hiniself of the direct
responsibility escapes the great wrath.
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Jlowever, when such tactics are re-
sorted to in the phychology class the
inevitable frustration results. The
psychology professor with his expert
knowledge of why we do what we do
when we do it, invariably meets'our
most fluent explanations with quiet,
sympathetic smile and piercing gaze.
He observes quietly, listens intently,
and believes not . Then when we have
exhausted ourselves he shakes his
head knowingly and leaves us won
dering Whether we are students of
psychology or case studies.
There was a time when I might,
if I felt so disposed, sit down and in
tensely dislike those people who an
noy me and I would feel justified in
doing so, but now I don’t know. For
example, that young lady sitting
across the room, the one volunteer
ing information. I hate her. But,
according to what the Prof, has been
saying, I don’t hate her at all; I love
her and the fact that I can’t get her
attention has made me try to convince
myself that I hate her. But that's
ridiculous—I don't love the girl—I
should like to slap her face. Oh, Oh,
that’s another s i g n—frustration
breeds aggression. Oh! confound this
psychology and these people ■vyho
spend years of their lives making
countless observations, and writfhg
up tons of paper, just to arrive at
some gross and obvious conclusion as,
"It would seem that babies tend to
get heavier as they grow older.” I'll
be glad when the holidays begin; then
I can go home and forget all‘this
stuff. It’s probably snowing at home
right now and—there I go day dream
ing again and that’s bad, escape
mechanism. Psychology—Why it has
even convinced me that I didn't record
these thoughts to be instructive or
even amusing, but with the hope that
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Aches of The
South
By Jesse Gibson
Fifteen years ago the South’s death
rate was higher than Hie national
average. Today it is lower. So, in a
way, we might say that the health
of the South is much better. But
there are other measurements of
health, besides the over-all death rate,
that show the health off our region
to be worse than that of the Nation
as a whole. When we break down
the death rate into causes of death we
find serious shortcomings in the
South.
The infant mortality rate in the
South is Higher than the rate for the
Nation. Forty-two percent of the
7,267 women who died in the United
States in 1942 from causes directly
due to pregnancy and childbirth, were
Southerners. If we study the fiure's
on the ten leading causes of death ih
the United States we find that death
from syphillis, tuberculosis, pneu
monia and influenza, nephritis and
premature birth were higher in the
South than in the entire Nation.
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One of the main causes for the
aches of the South is low income, be-
cause it is a barrier against acquir-
ing the basic things needed for good
health. Reports on food consumption
made by the Consumer Purchase
Study shoW that the typical South
erner’s diet is worse than that of the
rest of the people of the nation. In
the study, the diets off <50 percent of
the families of the Southeast were
scored as fair; 45 percent of the fam
ily ffints in the North and West were
fair. The diets of 30 percent of fam
ilies in all these areas were rated
good or excellent. But a rating of
poor was given to 40 percent of
Southeastern families, compared with
only 25 percept with poor diets in the
North and West.
What about public sanitation ? Pub
lic sanitation in the Negro sections
and in some white sections leaves
much to be desired. Contributing
causes are the lack of sewers, the
miles of unpaved streets, lack of side
walks, and poorly drained paved
streets. The street cleaning and gar
bage collection services of the city
have been seriously impaired by lack
of equipment, repairs and personnel
during the war years, and have thus
contributed to poor sanitation.
These are only a few of the painful
aches of the South. Can they be re
lieved ?
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CHRISTMAS RECOLLECTION
(Continued from Page Two)
And so is the spirit that awakens within me now, and I trust
is in the hearts of all of you. It is not only what you receive, but
what you give, and what you share with others which shall give
you true joy. And so of such a mind we leave our college campus
and return to our homes this Christmas. And there shall be peace,
and there shall be thanksgiving, and there shall be love, and may
your Christmas be as merry as mine.
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Those who are interested in this pertinent controversy may submit
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