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...will order the National Guard to assemble and do all that is required of them by the military officers, and will appoint State-wide committees to urge patriotic societies to hold patriotic services, as contemplated by the War Department plans...
...Harvard engaged this promising "radical" to direct Hemenway Gymnasium. When he relin- quished the position, 40 years later, he had furnished the country with "chest weights" and other body-building machinery, had brought Harvard's strength-index up 25%, had introduced an "anthropometric" (strength-measuring) formula now in wide use, had supervised the physical education of scores of athletes and hundreds of gymnastic teachers...
...permission for the erection of a memorial tablet to George Gordon Lord Byron, English poet, was refused by Bishop Ryle, Dean of Westminster. Wrote the Bishop to the London Times: "Byron, partly by his own openly dissolute life and partly by the influence of licentious verse, earned a world-wide reputation for immorality. Among English-speaking people, Westminster Abbey primarily stands to witness for Jesus Christ...
...cause and cure of encephalitis are still unknown. There are no known preventive measures to be taken. It first attracted wide attention when it appeared in Europe and North America in the wake of the epidemic of influenza in 1917-18, and it has been noticeable in England only for the last five years. Its history, however, is longer, for a few isolated cases were recorded in Central Europe in 1712, and it followed, also, the influenza outbreak...
Engaged. Theodore M. Edison, of West Orange, N. J., son of Thomas A. Edison, famed inventor, to Miss Anna Maria Osterhout, of Cambridge, Mass. Her father, a Professor in the Botany Department of Harvard, precipitated wide discussions in 1918 by averring that food could be obtained from sunlight, air, water...