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...Butts is engaged in cancer research in the hygienic laboratories of the University of Pennsylvania. His theories have attracted favorable attention from Dr. William H. Woglom, assistant director of the Crocker Laboratory, New York, and other cancer experts...
...Stratton succeeds Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, former President of Dartmouth and Director of pure science in the Nela Research Laboratories, who served as President of Tech for a few months in 1921 but was compelled to resign on account of ill health. In the interregnum the Institute has been administered by Elihu Thomson, famed inventor of electric welding, who is one of its trustees. M. I. T. has specialized in electrical engineering and is the chief training school for the general staff of the industry in America. Stratton will cause no break in the succession of electric experts...
...Stratton's inaugural address on " The Effect of Science in the Evolution of Industry," he demonstrated the economic wisdom of generous support for research in pure science. He said that the automotive industry must find a substitute for gasoline, on which the elder Edison commented that the electric storage battery has already filled the bill. Edison looks for all transportation and industry to be electrified: " You never saw a motorman tinkering around under his streetcar...
...William J. Mayo, sailing for Europe, where he will receive honorary degrees at Dublin and Leeds and present a paper at an international surgical congress in London, stated that he knew of no reliable cancer cure as yet. Few things are improbable in surgery, he said, but further research into the nature and cause of cancer is prerequisite. The apparent increase in cancer, he believes, is due partly to the lengthened span of life, as cancer is essentially a disease of middle...
...Sachs Research Fellowship in fine arts to Donald M. Oenslager '23, of Harrisburg, Pa., who has designed the scenery for recent productions of the Harvard Dramatic Club; John Knowles Paine Fellowships in music to Elmer L. Olsson 1G., of Topeka, Kan., who graduated from the University of Kansas in 1921, and to Arthur H. Starbird '23, of Somerville; Bayard Cutting Fellowship to Charles H. Taylor 2G., of Maplewood, N. J., Austin Teaching Fellow at Harvard, whose subject is government and history: Pratt Fellowship in fine arts to Joseph S. Jabionski '23, and 1G., of Rochester, N. Y., and Rogers Fellowships...