Word: beta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Housemaster Ronald M. Ferry '12 would welcome intellectuals, for the House had no one among last year's Junior Eight nor this fall's Senior Sixteen in Phi Beta Kappa. Members of the House are divided as to the tutorial staff--some complain that the tutors are snobbish and aloof, while others find them provocative conversationalists...
Three Funsters--one a varsity football player--were among his fall's group of 16 seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and the House usually gets a fair share of other academic honors...
Despite these other activities, seven or the Senior Sixteen Phi Beta Kappa last fall were Lowell House men, and 13 Bellboy men have received the annual Jacob Wendell Scholarship for the outstanding freshman...
...Alpha to Beta. Dr. Lincoln, a graduate of Boston University School of Medicine in 1926, had an ordinary general practice in Medford until 1946, when he cultured some staphylococcus germs from a patient's nose. He noticed that the culture was being eaten away, so he sent it to a friend at Boston University, who told him that he had a bacteriophage in the test tube. Soon, the friend began growing the germs and their sidekicks, the phages, in murky bottles. Dr. Lincoln used the extracted phage material to drip into the noses of patients with minor ailments, generally...
Most patients had a mild reaction, such as a slight fever, and then felt better. But one got an inflammation of the liver, and Dr. Lincoln decided that germs of what he calls Strain Alpha must somehow have been transmuted into Strain Beta, with its own phage. With two phages at hand, Dr. Lincoln went on to treat grippe and liver inflammation. Soon he spread out to treat laryngitis, tonsillitis, abscessed teeth, neuralgia, cataract and glaucoma. By 1948 he was treating cancer and tuberculosis...