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...Cannon '96, who spoke second, showed the strides lately taken by the medical profession. "Experiments and tests are the direct factors of medical progress," said Dr. Cannon. He then explained how medical experiment brought about the results previously explained by Dr. Shattuck. "There are yet many obscurities in medical knowledge," said Dr. Cannon; "for instance, scarlet fever, measles, infantile paralysis, and cancer afford wide fields of investigation. The average physician may not make worldwide discoveries, yet, like a picture puzzle, every addition is needed. There is a certain thrill that comes to a man when he makes a great discovery...
...music, we need this enthusiasm today as in nothing else. For in music in this country our only very appreciable progress has been professional. professionalized music, bought and sold like any other commodity of luxury or convenience, has been the brand with which we are all familiar. We hear of exorbitant prices paid to the great singers. We know the tremendous cost of maintaining opera, or a symphony orchestra; and on the other hand, we hear about the fortune made by a clever writer of popular songs. Our basis of the value of music is for the most part...
...very thing and in some places there is already open water. Indoor practice has been held for the past four weeks under the instruction of Dr. Spaoth. Very few changes have been made in the order of the boats, and the coaching staff seems very well pleased with the progress of the work...
...Some progress has been made already in de-Latinizing some courses in History, Philosophy, Fine Arts, etc., but there should be no stopping of the process. If any fact concerning the ancient Greeks or Romans is worth acquiring, it is worth acquiring equally by those who have or have not studied the languages in which the facts have been handed down...
...from three to four months. It meets in the main offices of the company, 26 Broadway, New York City. Directors and managers of the company give talks and read papers on phases of the oil business and there is also a considerable amount of supplementary practical work. During the progress of the training course each student receives $17.50 per week. If candidates do not fulfill requirements they are dropped...