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Registration this year is something new and offers to the returning student, strategist and grind alike, a new and enticing problem. Long hours of waiting are to be replaced by the inviting prospect of a huge envelope containing all kinds of pamphlets, bills, notices, and schedules awaiting the registree after a mere few minutes spent in registering on Friday or Saturday...
...shortage of men for the weight events is the most serious problem facing Coach Martin this year and a general call has been issued for inexperienced men to try for these positions...
...dictatorship of the strong man in the persons of Mussolini and Primo Rivera, while German democracy steers a narrow course, apparently doomed to failure, between the Scylla of hungry reds and the Charybdis of angry nationalists. Meanwhile on the Turkish question and to a lesser extent in the problem of the Ruhr, France and England have become so callous to changing positions, that it occasioned only little surprise when a recent French Yellow Book was filled with quotations from Mr. Lloyd-George, who was busy at the time of publication in most unmeasured denunciation of France...
These are some of the findings of Surgeon H. M. G. Robertson, of the U. S. Public Health Service, who has been making a special study of the bubonic problem. The three factors in the epidemiological circle of the disease are believed to be the rat, the man, the flea. The flea is the only factor that can be considered seasonally variable. Studies by the Indian Plague Commission and the U. S. Bureau of Entomology have led to the conclusion that the adult flea does not usually live through the Winter in cool climates. The species is prevented from dying...
Kala-azar, or Dum-Dum fever, a mysterious disease somewhat similar to malaria, frequently fatal and extremely disabling, is so prevalent in Eastern India, particularly Assam, Bengal and Madras, that its transmission constitutes "probably the most important unsolved problem of tropical medicine," according to Dr. L. E. Napier and his colleagues, who have been doing research work on Kala-azar for several years...