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...Johns Hopkins University, by its abolition of college work and the devotion of the university entirely to graduate study and research, will increase the prestige of the graduate school in American education," predicted Professor T. L. Lowes, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences yesterday. "I don't believe that any other university is as well fitted as Johns Hopkins for the following out of its proposed plan." Professor Lowes' statement followed that announcement that Johns Hopkins University will become a strictly graduate institution...
...Guggenheim Foundation which has just been announced marks another epoch in this movement. It affords the freest possible opportunities for advanced study and research in the sciences, learned professions, and fine arts. No age limits are prescribed, the fellowships will be open to both men and women of every race, color and creed. The awards will enable students to "carry on their studies in any country in the world where they can work most profitably," Mr. Guggenheim states as the purpose of the foundation to "improve the quality of education" and the "practice of the arts and professions...
Gilbert Murray. To the Society for Psychical Research in London, one Mrs. Henry Sedgwick read a paper on thought transference in which she reviewed the results of 259 experiments conducted over a period of years...
...himself, survived. His attendants each swallowed their doses, were not harmed. Then the antiseptic was administered in some cases of kidney disease in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Within 48 hours, these cases were cured totally and, to all appearances, permanently. A committee of 15 learned gentlemen from the National Research Council was appointed to conduct further investigation...
Half of it was given to Dr. L. R. Cleveland of Johns Hopkins University for research into the physiology of protozoa inhabiting the digestive tracts of termites and other animals. These protozoa are far from being the smallest animals known, but the layman can get an idea of their size from the fact that they dwell in the intestines of white ants...