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Of Baptist publications: "The Baptist papers, like the churches and the 'benevolences,' are chronically hard up. . . . [They carry ads of] Peruna, Mrs. Winslow's Syrup, Walker's Prostate Specific, and other such quack remedies . . . flaming editorials praising the quackeries of the late Dr. Albert Abrams of San Francisco. . . . Some of...
As Kent's waiting list grew in popularity, it was seen that another school of the same type would be welcomed. Instead of lengthening his waiting list, Father Sill called to him his two prefects of '18, bought them another farmhouse at South Kent, five miles away, and helped them...
The dozen will be taught how to assimilate college and how to equate themselves more properly to the college world, so that when they re-enter college next September, they will be wiser and better Freshmen. The purpose in the minds of the Rutgers faculty in inaugurating this now departure...
* This New Latin word means an "establishment to educate people how to keep well." A "sanatorium" is an establishment for treating specific diseases or for applying particular remedies.
Dr. J. J. R. Macleod of the University of Toronto, co-discoverer with Dr. F. G. Banting of insulin, the diabetes specific, reported recent progress with the drug; also a possible new, cheaper source of insulin, in acorns. Hitherto it has been extracted from fish.