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...some, especially hemp, is exported to the United States, Europe, and Australia. The soil of the Philippine farms is especially adapted to the culture of rubber trees, the refined product of which has been in little demand by Filipinos and consequently, the rubber trees have not been planted and grown...
...McCartney, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, after four years of experiments on human volunteers. Filtered washings from the noses of cold sufferers were injected into healthy persons, who promptly developed colds, which were in turn transmissable. The causative germ could not be seen, although cultures were grown from the secretions of 40 patients. Either the germ is so small that it cannot be seen through the most powerful magnification (about 1,500 times), or the right cultures for its food requirements were not found. Germs which will pass through an earthenware filter are called " filterable viruses." Dr. Olitsky...
...clock every night; turned off at 2 in the morning, giving five hours of light additional to the normal sunshine. Between time, the plants are allowed to "sleep." Celery plants doubled in size in six weeks, and roses, carnations, lilies bloomed eight days before their sisters grown by sunlight alone. The system will eliminate flower " famines " on such occasions as Easter Day, and dearth of out-of-season delicacies retarded by cloudy weather...
...reception given Booth Tarkington's "Rose Briar" at the St. James Monday night must have been exceedingly gratifying to the actors--every act was well applauded, and the humor of the situation seemed to be keenly appreciated. The Playgoer himself, who particularly detests baby-talk from grown-up women, had rather a hard time of it occasionally; and some of the discourse on "Love--its horrible effects" was pretty gooey, but by and large, the show was a good...
...present-day undergraduates. The traditions of Harvard are something different--something as old as Harvard but as alive today as ever. The founders planted in their new pledged college seeds of free-thinking, of independence which have proved so fruitful, and succeeding generations have added much. Harvard tradition has grown steadily, for its roots are firmly fixed and its stalk points always in the same direction. It is this deeper aspect that Dr. Eliot can present as can no other, and nothing is more worthy of his attention...