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...consisting of the pancreas, the pituitary and the adrenals. . . . This flatly contradicts the orthodox theory and treatment now commonly used, which is based on the opposite notion that diabetes is caused by a deficiency of gland secretions in the pancreas, thereby causing a fatal increase in the normal sugar content of the blood."-Dr. James Harry Button, Chicago endocrinologist-. in the Illinois Medical Journal last week. What, then, was more simple, if highly hazardous, than to shoot x-rays into the pituitary, which lies under the brain, and the adrenals, which lie on the kidneys, and thus slow...
...used to be, and his concern is to render it invisible. What he wants is "a style that is not only unseen but utterly unperceived. A complete negation of style...Give the reader a fact, not a phrase." This ideal, which implies a drastic cleavage between style and content, is shared by most of his contemporaries. They are all experts with a scalpel, and most of them are eager that their art should be popular; the combination of function and desire calls for an adroit but unobtrusive style...
This is not to say that "The American Procession", as it is, contains no permanent value; any such handy collection cannot help being useful. But if the authors, with an eye and a half on the immediate customer have somewhat impaired that usefulness, they may at least be content with a well-edited, lively, best seller...
...bland British Captain Albert R. Francis rushed Mr. Untermyer, roaring protest. Rather than risk a large proportion of his company's business, Captain Francis acted promptly, jettisoned all the offensive gewgaws-nearly 1,000. As they plopped into the ocean Mr. Untermyer sat down to his dinner content. Later he went to his cabin, slipped on the edge of his pink tiled bathtub, cut a deep gash over his left...
Nothing is more important than that the College should decide whether the whole educational philosophy which the tutorial system embodies should be abandoned. This decision is upon the present administration. Those who have given themselves to the system are no longer content to play a subsidiary role, and that only at the option of the student. The student is perplexed by duties which seem to him conflicting; if he needs a scholarship, tutorial is an expensive luxury for which there is no reward. Everywhere, in the rank list, in the general cum laude, the dominance of course credit is subtly...