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This afternoon at 5 o'clock Dr. Thorvald Madsen, director of the Danish Serotherapeutic Institute at Copenhagen will lecture at the Medical School on "Whooping Cough: Its Bacteriology, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment." His lecture will be the first of the Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine to be given this year...
...Munch, Danish delegate to the League, in announcing this step, merely avowed that armaments are useless to small nations, for they are allowed to use them only as the pawns of great powers. He argued that disputes between small nations must henceforth be settled by round table discussions or by arbitration between the backers of the midget countries. If not, their Lilliputian quarrels will again serve as pretexts for gigantic struggles whose real sources lie deep in the persistent rivalries of the great powers...
...Labrador. By Monday all preparations were complete, and the fliers waited only for the chain of U. S. naval vessels, commanded by Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, to take up their positions. The cruiser Milwaukee reached Nova Scotia to make maps of the region over which they will pass; the Danish steamer Gertrude Rask smashed through the ice to Greenland to carry supplies for them...
...privately chagrined at the prospect of the match, though to be sure the family bank account is something of a palliative. Mr. Gaar had been secretary to her husband until the latter had mysteriously ad mitted him to partnership; and upon Mr. Almy's death Mr. Gaar, whilom Danish immigrant, had automatically become the head of the business...
...explore the frozen North. It was not until the time of Grieg that the possibilities of a tonal invasion of Arctic wastes and peoples was recognized. Percy Grainger and MacDowell have made tentative advances into the interpretation of the spirit of snow-lands. But it has remained for a Danish disciple of the Norwegian Grieg to bring forth a full-fledged, large-proportioned evocation of Eskimo life, of its strange superstitions and frigid passions...