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Zein. The director of the Corn Industries Research Foundation, Chemist Harry Everett Barnard, urged chemists to invent uses for zein, a protein left over as a by-product from the corn-refining industry. Arthur Dehon Little, Cambridge industrial chemist, is already experimenting. Zein resembles cellulose and cellulose derivatives in certain ways. It can be mixed with them, as in plastics. It resists water, decay and flames, has advantages as an adhesive, in sizing paper and textiles, and in finishing leather. Chemist Morris Omansky, Boston consultant, reports zein useful as a reinforcing compound for rubber manufacture, arid Dr. Barnard thinks...
Written as the by-product of an eminently successful scientific foray, this volume is not a handbook or history of the country. But as an absorbing narrative, it does succeed in giving us much of the flavor of a land where alarm clocks lie buried with emperors and it is good form to have stained teeth. The Indo-China wing of the Kelly-Roosevelt Field Museum Expedition, headed by Harold Coolidge left remote Lao Kay early in 1929. With its impressive impedimenta packed on some ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over...
...Scholars who wish to make productive scholarship their calling are advised that there is no place for them in this University." This is the sign which hangs over the door of American Graduate Schools, Mr. Wernaer writes. He says further: "Scholarship has been to us largely a by-product, a means of securing academic promotion, but not an end in itself. Yet, it is, we know, an end in itself, and to see this end realized is one of the chief functions of the university." It need hardly be said that it is the "creative, not merely dissective, form...
...question whether college editors are publicity seekers. We doubt whether more than an insignificant number of undergraduate editors in the United States are interested in personal publicity of the type which has been the unfortunate by-product of Spectator's interest in the intercollegiate football situation. The efforts of Spectator and other college newspapers to keep the names of their editors and editorial writers from the professional press furnish ample evidence that the alleged interest in publicity is a fiction conceived by critics desiring to discredit honest efforts to bring about improvement in the university world. It is time that...
...however, it was suddenly announced at City Hall that the Mayor's health was in a bad way, despite his ten-day rest in April in California. His physician. Dr. William Schroeder Jr., who is also his Commissioner of Sanitation, ordered him to "Europe for "rest." As a by-product of the trip, the Mayor and his Commissioner would inspect foreign garbage plants, get pointers to improve the New York system. Together they sailed on the Bremen Aug. 3. Soon began a typical Walker "rest" junket-a series of wisecracks, banquets, beer parties, clothes, flowery speeches, songs, night clubs...