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...proper significance only when placed in a series which has gradually been developing, and when it is realized that diseases of the heart now cause a larger number of fatalities than any other single type of illness. Not long ago tuberculosis and pneumonia led all the rest, but medical research has now found means of fighting these, with fresh air, with oxygen, with serum, and by other more technical means, until the number of deaths recorded from each has become less and less. But on the other hand the recent cardioscope is merely the continuation of the idea of other...
...latter is more recent. The great department was that of psychology which, under G. Stanley Hall, achieved international note. There were also well known departments of biology, chemistry, physics, history, social science and education. And in general the university was known for the unselfish spirit of scientific research which there existed. This was all prior to the beginning of the present administration...
Despite all the spectacular activity against cancer evident in the various "cures" (TIME, May 19 and June 4), the solidest work is being done, as usual, by the concerted efforts of medical research. A British Empire campaign against cancer was organ-ized last week by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, to which Lord Athol-stan has given an additional $100,000. It has the backing of the Lancet, and all the most influential press of England, both medical and lay. The American Society for the Control of Cancer is doing admirable propaganda work. The Crocker Cancer Re-search Fund...
President Atwood of Clark University, who is accused of preferring athletics and "college spirit" to a " spirit of co-operative scientific research...
...characteristic flora of the prize ring, is withering away. Careful inspection of the three champions now training to defend their titles within the month- Jack Dempsey against Tom Gibbons, Johnny Kilbane against Eugene Criqui, Jimmy Wilde against Pancho Villa-reveals that none show the effects of auricular horticulture. Further research into the personal appearances of the six other ring champions discloses only one cauliflower ear. It is attached to the head of Johnny Dundee. A cauliflower ear is the ridged, mushroom-like appendage that remains after years of unfriendly massage by the fists of opposing pugilists. Its modern disappearance...