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...presumably neutral view from Yale, which has neither farms nor oilwells, was injected by Lester Clyde Lichty and E. J. Ziurys: "The fuel economies accompanying the increased compression ratios made possible by the use of alcohol are offset, both theoretically and from engine test, by its lower heating value per pound of fuel. ... It requires about 1.67 lb. of alcohol to liberate the same amount of energy as . . . by one pound of gasoline...
...loaned to a few U. S. hospitals for the heat treatment of syphilis and gonorrhea (TIME, April 22, et ante). For proof that her test subjects develop pure fevers and nothing else, Dr. Fishberg usually heats them until fever blisters form on their lips. As demonstration of how to offset the specific effects of fever in sick patients, Dr. Fishberg brings her test subjects back to normal by giving them a weak solution of common salt to drink and causing them to inhale a mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide...
...considered opinion that football is in real danger today from its friends or rather these who claim to be its friends," says Mr. Okeson. "Financial competition for schoolboys athletes brings evils in its train which more than offset whatever good there may be in furnishing a college education to those men who really desire it and are ambitious enough to acquire and use it. Excessive drinking at games, gambling, and rowdy exhibitions by spectators all furnish ammunition to those who are opposed to football...
Lowell fought Eliot to a deadlock of one match apiece. Lowell's League C team piled up a neat 4-1 count to offset Eliot's complete 5-0 walkover in League...
...regard to the University Professorships, I have known of no such intelligent and realistic attempt to offset the evils of over-departmentalization and of high specialization as is represented by the proposal of this plan. For perfectly obvious and understandable reasons a college curriculum tends to fall into the hands of specialists working in water-tight compartments of knowledge and instinctively holding the bulkheads tightly closed that if opened would articulate one branch of knowledge with another. The inevitable result of this is failure on the part of institutions of higher education to make clear to undergraduates anything even mildly...