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...Mills, who died in October, 1921, made his bequest in memory of his wife, for the establishment at the University of the Elizabeth Worcester Mills Fund, the income "to be devoted to the investigation of the origin and cure of cancer". The money will be applied to the support of important research work being carried on for this purpose by the Harvard Cancer Commission in the new John Collins Warren laboratory, opened last spring adjoining the Huntington Memorial Hospital. This bequest is expected to make possible a much more thorough and detailed investigation of the constitutional effects of radiation...
...origin of this paradoxical animal remains a mystery. Perhaps it originated from one of those insectivorous swarms that surround are lights, Lamps, and other sources of artificial light. By some, it is supposed to be a humerous tendency of a dying race. By others, it is heralded as the first delicate development of actual thought in individuals long-buried in the slough of wit. By this last definition, it is a freak to the encouraged. Students of Harvard, we have here an unsurpassed opportunity ot practise that Christmas spirit; to herald this hybrid bug as a true struggler toward...
...Alumni Weekly in regard to Yale football, "and is essentially the lack of a wining system". In the popular mind of the world's greatest demagogue, the sporting writer of today, "system" is a word considered indigenous only to Harvard, yet most of the winning Harvard plays found their origin in the old "Yale system" which won its namos with customary regularity for over a decade. Most of the vertabrae in the backbone of this system were made up of the imperial Yale triumvirate of captain, coach, and Walter Camp. But this inter-working continuity and ever-working salubrity...
Professor Henrl Pirenne, rector of the University of Ghent, delivered yesterday afternoon the last of his series of lectures on "The Origin of Cities in Western Europe". He continued his account of the use of the walled towns by explaining the part played by the "bourgeois" class in the city life...
Professor Henri Pirenne will deliver the last of his series of lectures on "The Origin of Cities in Western Europe" this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D. He will speak entirely in French...