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...Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland, for some years Dr. Henry Spahlinger, famed scientist, has worked to perfect a remedy for tuberculosis. In 1919 he discovered a serum which attracted much attention from the medical profession; since then he has made steady advances, so that now his serum, far stronger than the original discovery, is said to cure an ordinary case in six months, a so-called "hopeless" case in a year and a half. But last week a couple of bailiffs threatened to take up their abode in the institute at Carouge. Dr. Spahlinger's creditors were getting anxious. Standing among...
...mental life of American universities is being "lowered to the dead level of mediocrity." The students are "required to do so much cheering in common that they begin to think alike and consequently to lose in initiative and freedom of thought." And on such grounds as these the Princeton scientist reaches the conclusion that in the European universities, despite their crippled condition, "there is more independence, and the spirit of investigation is more active, than in American colleges and universities...
Professor Arthur G. Green, English scientist, sailed home last week from Manhattan, and his excitement was so great that he could not keep from talking with a ship-news reporter. He had seen Dr. Alexis Carrel (Nobel Prize Winner in 1912), and he had seen a piece of tissue from the heart of a chicken which Dr. Carrel cut from a live bird in 1913. The tissue is still alive and growing. Motion pictures have been taken of its processes of development...
...combination of the highest medical reputation with the surest literary touch, Dr. William H. Welch, aged 75, last week left his modest home in Baltimore, traveled to Manhattan. He went upon an errand dear to his heart, to speak a word which should carry across the distance between scientist and sick...
...names, Curie. In the world's eye this name conjures up the image of an austere, almost emaciated woman, Mme. Marie Curie, famed co-discoverer of radium. Last week an appreciative concert audience packed the Salle des Agricultures while the youngest (20-year-old) daughter of the great scientist made her début as a pianist...