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There may be a single kind of bacteriophage which adapts itself to destroy specific germs. Or there may be a particular bacteriophage for each kind of germ. Professor d'Herelle has cured dysentery, he said last week, by feeding sufferers with bacteriophage derived from dysentery bacilli. Special bacteriophage has also been successful against Asiatic cholera, bubonic plague...
...Western Colorado oil fields to which he referred, because last week, in submitting his resignation to Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, he charged that large unnamed oil companies were trying to steal this property from the U. S. Mr. Kelley's letter contained the germ of another national Oil Scandal...
Here may be found the germ of the House Plan idea. Isn't there some way that the environment and social conditions can be made more favorable for the formation and fostering of these all important contacts? The answer seems fairly obvious: give the students the best of living conditions and all possible facilities for enjoying themselves together and leave them together for a substantial period of time. Squash courts, well-appointed dining halls and common rooms plus comfortable and attractive rooms will all contribute to this object. But further than that it will be necessary to let the students...
First U. S. Saengerbund was organized in 1835 at Philadelphia, first Saengerfest held in 1849 at Cincinnati. Thereafter all over the country the German music germ spread. In the West during the woolly days of the Gold Rush, a Dr. Maleck, stout fellow of the rough frontier, led miners, gamblers, traders, hangers-on in rollicking Teutonic song. For the rest of the century, German societies sprang up, lived a short time, died. It was not until 1905 that the present Pacific Saengerbund was born. Robert Lorentz was its organizer, G. G. Reigger its leader. In 1910 the first Pacific fest...
...earthworms, lacked normal vitamins? He raised some mice on diets lacking certain vitamins and infected them with leprosy. Like the moles, but unlike the normal mice they broke out with the nauseating stigmata of leprosy. Here then was excellent proof that he had a virulent strain of the germ, which under special conditions might be prepared as a vaccine...