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Without any solicitations from student committees, Oberlin and the Universityof Minnesota sent checks to the Unitarian Service Committee totaling $1,750. In other colleges, organized campaigns produced the following results: at Barnard, with a student body of 1,500, $2,500; at Wellesley, with slightly more than 1,600 students, $4,000; at Smith, with an enrollment...
Yale raised $1,682 in a campaign similar to the program last spring at the University which collected $3,400. "Naturally, we are glad that we did better than Yale," Chairman Campbell said, "but we are not pleased to have been so clearly outrun by such schools as Smith, Barnard, and Oberlin, who averaged three times as much as we did, and by Swarthmore, where the college community of 1,100 people contributed an average of $6 per person for European food relief...
...almost invisible speck of radioactive carbon-a millicurie*- became the first byproduct of atom-bomb-making to be released for medical research. Last week's buyer (at $367 plus handling charges and deposit on the bottle): the Barnard Skin and Cancer Hospital of St. Louis, which will use it only in research. It will not cure cancer...
...more minute quantities and at far greater cost. Other elements can also be made radioactive, but C14 is the most useful for cancer research because 1) it remains radioactive for thousands of years, can be recovered and used again, 2) carbon is the key element in all body chemistry. Barnard's researchers will use it as a tracer (it signals its presence by shooting off radiation) to study the metabolism of cancerous cells which must be understood before the disease can be controlled, prevented or cured...
...treats them respectfully, arrays most of those relating to Altgeld's career in good order. But he adds dabs of "color," invents dialogue ("Dear . . . do you want eggs or hot cakes?" "I want hot cakes"), even pretends to plumb Altgeld's mind and explain his motives. Harry Barnard's biography, Eagle Forgotten (1938), remains by far the best and fullest account of Altgeld's life. The American contributes "interpretive" moments and prose passages that sound like Upton Sinclair...