Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...track and cross country head coach Jaakko Mikkola and his assistant Ed Neufeld will be on hand to develop the fast men in the Freshman class, Jaakko's story, and he's Jaakko to everyone who comes into contact with him just once, is one of the most inspiring of the Harvard seene. A Finnish weight athletic in the Olympics, he came to this country where he first worked in a Lowell mill. From there he finally rose to become an assistant trainer at Harvard. Under Eddie Farrell he became assistant track coach in charge of the weight throwers...
Freshmen will find that this competition affords an excellent means of getting to know members of their class as well as upperclassmen and coaches, and that everyone who competes receives training in businesslike methods of work and has a chance to get a lot more out of college than many...
...before the House Post Office Committee: "Our line feels that air service will supplement steamship service routes and make it possible to discontinue the construction of large, expensive boats. The practice of the future will be to construct combination passenger and freight boats, but to carry by airplane first-class mail, express matter and the passenger who is in a hurry. . . . I hold no brief against Pan American Airways. . . . The service which they propose for Europe will serve Atlantic ports of Europe and England, whereas we will serve Mediterranean and Black Sea ports...
...years ago, when the president of a Washington, D. C. veterinary college sadly passed out diplomas to the four members of his graduating class and announced that the college, founded 35 years before, was thenceforth discontinued, it appeared that few men cared to become horse doctors (TIME, June 27, 1927). Last week the annual convention of the American Veterinary Medical Association in Omaha demonstrated that, on the contrary, more and more men want to be horse doctors...
...Prontylin," has been found effective in blood poisoning, gonorrhea, childbed fever, erysipelas, cerebrospinal meningitis and other bacterial diseases (TIME, Dec. 28, et seq.). Last week conservative bacteriologists of the National Institute of Health announced that this astounding new drug seemed to be a cure for an entirely separate class of diseases, namely, those caused by viruses. Among virus diseases are the common cold, influenza, infantile paralysis, parrot fever. Another disease due to a virus is "benign lymphocytic choriomeningitis," which was recognized as a distinct ailment only a few years ago because almost anything may cause its chief symptoms (headache, vomiting...