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...Swedish Alfred Bernhard Nobel's posthumous Prize-giving began in 1901. Emil von Behring (1854-1917), German, won the first Prize in Medicine for his discovery that the serum of an immunized person will confer immunity against the same disease on another into whom it is injected (Behring...
After some reflection, Secretaries Adams and Good gravely decided to confer on the matter themselves...
...years ago, that their swarthy infant would one day be a great one of the Church. The diocese of Burgos, Spain, saw his birth. Burgos saw him consecrated as its Archbishop. But only a secret consistory of his peers in the Vatican last week saw Pope Pius XI confer on Burgos' Archbishop the red hat of the cardinalate, making him the titular priest of Rome's Santa Maria in Trastevere...
...exigent early stop is Friedrichshafen where he must meet Dr. Dornier before the German leaves for Manhattan where, the middle of next month, he must confer with the directors of Dornier Corp. of America and help them get started manufacturing his monster seaplanes. At the Friedrichshafen meeting the German and the Hollander will discuss, among other practical things, the usefulness of fulfilling the promise which Dr. Dornier made last week-that next March or April he will send his huge Do-X flying across the Atlantic to demonstrate that heavier-than-air machines can be made as practical as dirigibles...
...available around the College make the problem a particularly difficult one. Several considerations make it unwise to sell them to outside interests as is done by professional promoters. And the fact remains that there will be several positions at the disposal of the Employment Office which will in effect confer a subsidy upon the incumbent, athlete or no. As there seems to be no good reason why this should be done, some provision must be made for disposing of the income over and above that necessary for the fair compensation of the men employed on the concessions. At Yale twenty...