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...winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout the community, accompanied by chilliness, headache, muscular soreness, nausea, vomiting. The glands of the throat swell up; complications as peritonitis, pneumonia, arthritis are not rare. The abrupt violence of the illness gives little scope for serum, and so far little success has been had with...
...second half year begins, a backward survey suggests that the most significant business and financial feature of the first six months of 1928 was not the boom of stocks, but the number and scope of corporate mergers. The stock market strength of securities depends upon the strength of the underlying business ventures and by mergers those ventures have strengthened themselves. Some significant mergers, acquisitions, or consolidations this half year have been...
Agriculture. "The agricultural problem is national in scope and, as such, is recognized by the Republican Party which pledges its strength and energy to the solution of the same...
...them a new way. Yale and Harvard, as we announced on Saturday, have had an English literature match, ten a side, and Harvard won. The idea is much too good not to be borrowed from a country to which England ready owes so much. Both in fitness and in scope it grows as we look at it. The University which is beaten in the Boat Race has been able hitherto to console itself by declaring that to lead on the river has always been to lag in learning. That consolation can now be either substantiated, or blown away...
...truth the seeds of a mighty revolution in the intellectual history of all universities, and thus, in due time, of all the world. Harvard has played Yale at English literature. When Oxford annually plays Cambridge at Greek, at modern languages, at history, at theology, at mathematics, at science, the scope of the revolution will begin to be perceived. Learning and intellectual prowess will be, like cricket, football, rackets, and rowing, a means of scoring off the rival institution. They will be respectable. Those who cultivate them will no longer be despised; they will be admired. On the day when...