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...generally distributed in milk, but is a disease of man, not of cows. The milk may become infected by human hands, or, what seems more logical in view of the widespread character of the epidemics,* the udder of the cow becomes infected from human hands, releasing a stream of contagion at every milking time. Most of the epidemics have occurred during the winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout the community, accompanied by chilliness, headache, muscular soreness, nausea, vomiting. The glands of the throat swell up; complications as peritonitis, pneumonia, arthritis...
...Major Gen. James G. Harbord, president of the Radio Corporation of America, made a speech to some women Republicans in Manhattan. Said he: "The change that will be wrought by radio lies in the fact that though one address goes to an audience of 30,000,000 the contagion of the crowd is gone. The magnetism of the orator cools when transmitted through the microphone. The impassioned gesture swings through unseeing space. The purple period fades in color; the flashing eye meets no answering glance. . . . We sit in our library, in a room where we are accustomed to study...
...CRIMSON is steadily, during the last ten years or so, running down hill, and is losing the support of its reading public, both graduate and undergraduate. Writing under the title "The Harvard CRIMSON Goes Professional", Dean Nichols lays the blame for the CRIMSON'S unpopularity on the "foul contagion of newspaper row" which he claims has invaded the Crimson Building on Plympton Street. As a contributing cause, he also mentions that the CRIMSON editors have become less and less affiliated with the other activities at Harvard...
Reporters read: "Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the glad and wholesome contagion of cheerfulness. If frowns and distempers are contagious, we thank Thee that smiles are not less so. The smile goes forth from face to face. By the strange law of increase, gladness begets gladness. Remembering then that no frown ever made a heart glad, help us go forth to meet the day with high hope and smiling face; and even though it has not been easy to smile, let us rejoice if so we have been able to add to the sum of human happiness and make...
...drawn from the answers to the questionnaire, but many of them rank-among the sentiments that have not yet crystallized. It is for the country-wide college public to make all it can of the publicity which reveals it coping with similar problems and cooperating more through contagion than contact...