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...exact number of Engineering School students who will be admitted could not be determined, but it is believed that there will be no more than five...
...lobar pneumonia have demonstrated something of the chemical constitution of the bacterium known as the pneumococcus which causes the disease. The organism consists of a proteim center and a capsule or outer coat that contains a carbohydrate. Although the pneumococci are otherwise very similar they differ in the exact composition in their capsules. It is possible to differentiate promptly 22 fairly common varieties that may cause the disease, lobar pneumonia...
...view of this fact, it might be well to create a special legislature of antiquarians for the due consideration and care of these relics. Spirited debates might be held on such subjects as whether or not the world is flat, and the exact time of Creation as determined by an hour-glass. By this method the ordinary process of law-making should attain a rate of speed almost perceptible to the naked eye, and the Records would be made light enough for six attendants to handle with ease...
These windows are exact copies of windows in certain Austrian churches and monasteries near Vienna. The originals are fourteenth and fifteenth century pieces, being remarkable chiefly for the richness and brightness of the color of the glass...
...these examinations for Seniors in the fall instead of the spring was an improvement, but unfortunately the benefit to be derived from it is much diminished by the veil of mystery that hangs over the examinations. On the one side, Seniors should be notified early in September of the exact time of examination, so the souls made a bit callous to academic minutial by a summer of freedom may be properly filled with dread before the week of the required tests: and the time at which these are held, both in October and, for History and Literature, in February, might...