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...method of precipitating and concentrating the antibodies in anti-pneumococcus serum. This concentrated solution has been used with encouraging results in about 60 cases at the Boston City Hospital and in about 60 more in hospitals in New York and Brooklyn. While it is impossible to estimate the exact value of the discovery, even the most skeptical of those familiar with Dr. Felton's work have declared that at least 35 percent, and possibly 50 percent reduction in the pneumonia mortality rate is assured...
...average annual consumption of whiskey in the U.S. during the ten years prior to Prohibition was 130, 000,000 gallons. In the calendar year 1923 whiskey withdrawn under Government permits was 1,696,360 gallons. The exact amount of bootleg whiskey consumed is not known...
...complete arrangements have not been made for the exact time the Hall choruses and the Glee Club will perform, but they will probably open the Jubilee program at 6 o'clock on May 23. Dinner, which has been planned for 7 o'clock will follow the announcement of the winning dormitory chous. Details of the winning dormitory chorus. Details A. W. Wright '17 in the near future...
...custom, both sides of the question, the exact wording of which will be announced later, will be presented by members of the undergraduate body. These members are to be chosen in the near future...
...affect, any "expressionism", that insane effect produced by filtering all impressions through the distorted vision of one character. The style is not in the least hysterical. The treatment is entirely objective. The author records his chronicle of scenes and persons and action with an abundance of that sort of exact detail which makes "realism the only method for romance." If his style maybe said to ring with any prevailing tone, except the tone of accuracy and sincerity, it is a tone, not of desperation or weariness with life, but of constant feeling for color and beauty...