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...spite of the obstacles of the times and the fact that more than one hundred schools lost money last year, Harvard among them, only two have closed their doors. Over a long period of time summer education has justified its existence; it is only unfortunate that such a valuable adjunct to progress and culture should be so helplessly at the mercy of the vagrancies of economics...
...pancreas, an adjunct to the bowels, produces insulin whose dramatic influence on diabetes matches the dramatic effect of iodine on goitre. When the pancreas is inactive or diseased it produces too little insulin for the system. Hence diabetes. Too active a pancreas produces too much insulin, causes an opposite disease called hyperinsulinism. or ''hungry disease." Dr. Scale Harris of Birmingham, who has studied this phenomenon for ten years, described the symptoms as excessive hunger accompanied by weakness, nervousness, tremors, sweating and mental lapses. Many a person considered to be an epileptic actually suffers only from "hunger disease," said...
...Cody's opinion, however, athletics at Canadian universities are held more in their place than at many American College. "They are an adjunct to life, rather than life itself," he concluded...
...Federal Farm Board created by President Hoover in 1929; The Federal Farm Loan Bureau set up in the Treasury by President Wilson in 1916 to supervise the Federal Land Banks and the Joint Stock Land Banks and in 1923 the Intermediate Credit Banks; The Agricultural Credit Corp., an adjunct of Reconstruction Finance Corp. established in 1932; The Crop Production Loan Bureau of the Department of Agriculture dating back to 1921; and the same department's other Co-operative Loan Bureau...
Aviation is another Jock Whitney enthusiasm, but chiefly as an adjunct to polo and racing. Greentree is his polo team and he is a four-goal man, as good a back as hard-riding Pete Bostwick is a forward. Last summer he built a new field, carved out of the side of a hill on the Whitney place at Manhasset. L. I. Too heavy to ride his own steeplechasers in races, he rides to hounds, shoots, plays squash, flies his own cabin-plane, which was last year nearly destroyed by fire in its hangar at Roosevelt Field. The name...