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Ergot is a rust on the heads of rye. Ergot extract is widely used in obstetrics, to cause contraction of the uterus and control uterine bleeding. The physiological action of the extract is not precise, a fault of many drugs of vegetable origin. Their composition is complex and variable. Hence physicians lately have been adopting more controllable products. In obstetrics, pituitary solutions refined from the pituitary glands >of animals are supplanting ergot. But great quantities of fluid extract of ergot are still used. The raw material reaches the U. S. from Russia (and Poland) and Spain (and Portugal...
...stood Samuel Wesley Stratton, who turned over the presidency to become chairman of the Executive Board and Corporation. Excerpt from President Compton's inaugural: "There is a very real danger, for industry is competing with universities for the best men, often taking them and then perhaps later finding fault with the institution for not giving its students a first-class training. ... The industries must, for their own ultimate self-interest, see to it that the institute is financially able...
...fault to find with Mr. Shanks it is in his use of "the defective method" so popular now with teachers of literature. At times it seems that he is a little too anxious to discover just what particular poems were influenced by a particular does of laudanum. But this is a literary game highly enjoyed in some of the best company, and at worst, a small point. If reading a biography can approach the benefit of reading the original, this book does. It is a fascinating account of one of the most fascinating figures in literature...
...just come to me--the final examination in sophomore English at Yale College--we may believe that examinations are conducted in the ancient fashion of putting a premium on the memorizing of obscure passages, on cramming rather than on knowledge. I do not know whether this is the fault of Yale or of the instructor who plans the course. In my day at the University of Chicago instructors seemed to have much influence. Stodgy professors examined us in the minutiae of English literature; far-sighted men such as Robert Morss Lovett, James Weber Linn and Robert Herrick...
Voluble Admirals. Meanwhile admirals called as witnesses before the Foreign Relations Committee continued to discharge broadsides of professional disapproval against the treaty. In 15 days 23 high naval officers appeared to testify at the call of Senator Johnson and 21 of them could find nothing but fault. In chorus they complained that under the treaty the U. S. would: 1) have to build a cruiser fleet on specifications dictated by Britain; 2) have less than a sporting chance with 6-in. gun cruisers instead of 8-in; 3) be at a serious disadvantage against Japan in defending far Pacific possessions...