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...could make compounds only of inorganic elements, that organic growths depended upon a "vital principle." Berthelot reasoned that all chemical phenomena followed physical laws. In his laboratory he treated glycerin with certain acids and got fats, oils and butters. He combined hydrogen and carbon by means of the voltaic arc and got acetylene. "Berthelot condenses it [acetylene] under the action of heat and behold, we have benzine," writes Premier Poincaré in the current Chimie et Industrie, French periodical. "He adds hydrogen and behold, there appears ethylene, which, united with water, will produce alcohol. He places it in contact with...
...Hemenway Gymnasium basketball court has been enlarged and remodelled during the summer, and provided with better facilities for night practice. The iron work over the court has been removed and a set of 12 large arc lights has been installed along the sides and ends of the court...
...Paris, the scarlet pompons of the Garde Republicaine blazed around the Gare des Invalides. Bands played "The Star-Spangled Banner." General Pershing and Commander Savage proceeded at once to the Arc de Triomphe and the grave of the Soldat Inconnu. They had brought half a bronze wreath, the other half of which lay on the Unknown Soldier's grave in Arlington, Va. France's highest officialdom joined the Americans in two minutes of silence and a rigid salute, followed by Taps on a sad bugle through the drizzle...
...rained in Paris and 14,000 legionaries with their women folk formed into parade line. In their hands they held blue, white and red flowers. They marched; were cheered; cheered back cheerily. The rain stopped. Through the Arc de Triumphe they went?special privilege?and about the Unknown Soldier's tomb they dropped their red, white and blue posies...
Twenty thousand legionnaires on the sea?hundreds pouring into Paris each day. Some followed one-armed General Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, through the pouring rain to the Arc de Triomphe, where the Lamp of Maintenance on the Tomb of the Soldat Inconnu was relighted, hav-ing been snuffed out by the Communists (TIME, Sept. 5), who spat upon and "otherwise defiled" the sacred spot...