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...Cocci and diplococci have been recognized in cultures of tubercle bacilli for at least 15 years. They probably get there from the air, where they abound...
Though they abound in detective fiction, police toxicologists are rare in the U. S. When the police of almost any big city want to know what poison was used or what drug taken in a puzzling crime, they must apply to the faculty of some medical school or to a commercial laboratory. One of the few cities with an official toxicologist is New York, which has Dr. Alexander Oscar Gettler, a hard-bitten professor who teaches chemistry at New York University when he is not sleuthing for the city with his test-tubes. Last week Dr. Gettler. taking with...
...cranks in greater force abound...
...unable to find employment. Certainly these men, older and more competent masters of their field, and with no further class or thesis work of their own, are more logical choices than mere candidates. The fact that in many cases their needs are acute, and that they abound in discouraging numbers, indicates that they would be equally cheap labor. Those graduate students whom they would displace might secure aid through correcting papers or proctoring, duties less arduous and less responsible. There is surely no reason why this anomalous situation should be allowed to persist...
...Leon Conwell announced he would revive this lecture which tells of a man who roamed the world looking for diamonds he dreamed of, died without knowing that they existed in his own garden. It contains quotations from the Bible, Grant, Garfield, Lee, Rockefeller, Tennyson and a Mr. Bailey. Solemnities abound like these: "He is an enemy to his country who sets Capital against Labor. . . . Even if a rich man's son retains his father's money he cannot know the best things in life. . . . We must know what the world needs first and then invest ourselves to supply...