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...Vanderbilt's gift, according to Dr. Rackemann, "marks a new era in medical education. It is a part of the general movement for the prevention rather than the cure of disease. The Greeks and the Romans depended on their gymnasiums and baths to keep them well, because these were their only preventive measures against disease. Hippocrates wrote that doctors ought to be taught how to take care of themselves so that they could better take care of others. This appreciation of the importance of physical culture, together with much other knowledge of great value, was lost during the middle ages...
...completely equipped gymnasium for the Medical School has been made possible by a $125,000 gift from Harold S. Vanderbilt '07, it has been announced by Dr Francis M. Rackemann, general secretary of the Medical School dormitory fund...
This contribution is to be used to build a gymnasium into the general dormitory building, that is to be constructed for the school. Mr. Vanderbilt has also announced his willingness to make an annual gift for five years to pay for the services of a competent gymnasium instructor...
Engaged. Miss Muriel Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, great-great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Frederic C. Church, Jr., of Lowell, Mass...
PROFESSOR - Stanley Johnson - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). At Vanderbilt University, they well recall young Instructor Johnson. He has turned novelist since he left the English Faculty, but still lives in Nashville, Tenn. Reading his gentle arraignment of professorial hypocrisy, they will scowl, or be enthusiastic, self-consciously. The decline and fall of the soul of Dr. J. Tanksley Parkhurst, who took his Chaucer and his reputation seriously enough to become Dean, is staged at Thurston College, New England; but the winters are mild, the "you-alls" plentiful. Vanderbilt will take it personally. At other colleges, if the book is read, more...