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...fever with which they have been able to produce scarlet fever in two out of ten volunteers who asked for the innoculation. Now they have discovered that the fluid which may be filtered from growths of these bacteria apparently contains a toxin, and that it may be used for tests which will show whether or not a person is likely to become infected with scarlet fever on exposure to the disease. The test used is a specific skin test much like the Schick test that is used for testing immunity to diphtheria. Dr. W. Mair of London, who has spent...
Nine events will comprise the contest, in which 31 Freshmen are entered. The majority of these men are unknown quantities and consequently the meet this afternoon will be in the nature of a test...
When the 1927 sextet lines up against Andover this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Arena, the team will face its first real test. Until today the Freshmen have been playing local high school teams, and in the five games this season have scored 48 goals to their opponents' two. The school teams, however, have been slightly handicapped by the lack of ice for practice, and the Crimson, although it has suffered under the same conditions, has had the advantage in the use of the Arena twice a week...
...astronomical station of the Harvard Observatory, equipped with two photographic telescopes, has just been installed on the edge of the nitrate desert of Northern Chile to test the atmospheric conditions in that locality, and to watch and photograph the southern stars that cannot be studied at the existing stations of the Observatory located at Cambridge, at Mandeville, Jamaica, and at Arequipa, Peru...
...working at Arequipa have secured more than a hundred thousand photographs of southern stars. During the Peruvian summer; however, in the months from December to March, a heavily clouded season prevails. The continuity of the photographic record is then so badly interrupted that it has now been decided to test other sites in the hope of finding a favorable place that may be occupied during the cloudy season at Arequipa...