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...event which this extraordinary gathering awaited was the distribution of the latest issue of a medical journal, the Lancet. Previous announcements (TIME, July 20), had informed them that in that journal would appear articles by Dr. W. E. Gye, a one-time ticket agent, by Mr. J. E. Barnard, a prosperous hatter, describing their attempts to isolate the cancer germ. Efforts to obtain advance copies of this gazette by judicious bribing of printers, proofreaders, carriers, had failed. The crowd waited. At 5:30 in the afternoon, the Lancet was issued...
Months passed. It became clear, for all the absurd extravagance of public rumor, that something unusual was afoot. Last week Mr. John Edwin Barnard, Hon. Secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society, permitted his name to be attached to an announcement: He and his colleagues believed that they had isolated the cancer germ ... A minute disturbance in a ray of light revealed by the most intricate methods of microscopy ever devised... Highly satisfactory experiments upon mice, in whose tissues, inflamed with coal tar, the injected cancer organism produced both sarcoma and carcinoma*. . . Experiments in far too early a stage to warrant...
Such were the words of Mr. Barnard, a man far too human to say more, too kind to raise the hopes of those men in whose bodies burrow those minute, obscure carriers of death. But to medical men his clipped announcement made the fantastic whispers that had come to them seem duller than the garrulities of a midwife...
...luxurious chairs, glass panels through which journalists and race officials could see what was what-was forced down in a turnip field. On the second day, four remaining planes started round again. There were no Moths left now. Only the pompous Armstrong-Siddeley-Siskin, guided by Captain F. L. Barnard, came droning round the last stretch of the 805 mile course, a winner...
...University, heads the list of honorary vice-chairmen of the league, Mary E. Wooley, president of Mt. Holyoke College, Edwin A. Alderman. Hon. '09, president of Virginia University, Henry L. Smith, president of Washington and Lee, Edgar O. Lovett, president of Rice Institute, and Virginia C. Gildersleeve, Dean of Barnard College, are on the list of vice-chairmen who will assist President Eliot in the task of organizing the drive for members...