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...Chicago, "Old Doc" Robert Martin, itinerant Negro patent medicine seller, was urging his nostrum upon a Mrs. Eliza Murphy. Said he: "Madam, it is the greatest discovery since radium. ... It will make a new woman of you. ... I can recommend it because I take it myself. . . . Look at me: the picture of health!" He gasped, reeled, fell dead...
...position to give his dividends to the Harvard Fund throughout the whole twentyfive year period, the amount which he would have contributed to the Fund would be $437.00 (these figures are based on the present dividend scale of the Sun Assurance Company of Canada which company I recommend for the work). He would have paid out in premiums $475.00. At the end of the 25th year he could surrender his policy and receive in cash from the Company $277.00. Therefore at a net cost to him of $198.00 plus loss of interest he would have made a contribution...
...United States might eventually be forced to occupy Liberia by treaty, as it did Haiti; in which event, one important difference should recommend itself to the Government: The occupying force should consist of Negro soldiers and Negro officers, instead of brutal, arrogant, prejudiced white Marines. Intelligent Negro officers are available on the reserve list, and they could bring to their task of ending slavery a sympathy and a tact that were conspicuously missing in the American occupation of Haiti...
...United States might eventually be forced to occupy Liberia by treaty, as it did Haiti; in which event, one important difference would recommend itself to the Government: The occupying force should consist of Negro soldiers and Negro officers, instead of brutal, arrogant, prejudiced white Marines. Intelligent Negro officers are available on the reserve list, and they could bring to their task of ending slavery a sympathy and a tact that were conspicuously missing in the American occupation of Haiti...
...After two years of careful experimental work, a form of Aptitude Test has been devised, which gives a very high degree of correlation with the success of the students in the medical course. The Association of American Medical Colleges, at its meeting in Denver, voted to recommend this Aptitude Test to its constituent schools as an additional criterion in the selection of medical students; and appointed this Committee to administer the test...