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Although no subsequent cases have developed in Princeton University since the death of Eric Brunnow, one new case was discovered Tuesday in the town. This has provoked even a stricter quarantine of all students, and no little alarm is felt...
Princeton, N. J., Oct. 16, 1916.--Owing to the death of Eric Brunnow '20 from infantile paralysis the Princeton Senior Council at the request of President Hibben voted that undergraduates should remain within the town, except for necessary reasons; should go only to authorized eating places, and should stay away from moving picture shows entirely. The faculty sanitation commission, after examining the case, decided that Brunnow had contracted the disease before coming to Princeton, and that therefore quarantine was unnecessary. The football team as yet has been unaffected by the precautionary measures taken against the disease...
...which cluster around the life of a great university, if collected, would furnish material for a voluminous and inspiring volume. It is a work, we believe, which has not yet been undertaken by any one. The following story is told in Michigan University: In the year 1854, Prof. Francis Brunnow came from Leipsic to Ann Arbor, to fill the chair of astronomy and to act as director of the observatory. He was a thorough scholar, the author of a valuable work on Spherical Astronomy, and a man whose services were highly esteemed in the scientific world; yet, for a time...
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