Word: director
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...Despite the numerous species of poisonous snakes in North and South America, there is now an antivenin for every kind of snake poison in the western hemisphere," stated Dr. Afranio do Amaral, noted ophiologist and director of the Instituto Butantan at Sao Paulo, Brazil, in an interview yesterday...
...Public Health and is doing research study at the University Museum of Comparative Zoology, is regarded as the world's foremost authority on snakebites. Although the Instituto Bustantan was founded almost 30 years ago, almost all the serums have been produced within the last few years since the young director took over the duties of research and production. Within recent years the Brazilian institution has expanded so that a North American antivenin research institute is now working in conjunction with...
...Massachusetts branch of the school will be in charge of S. F. Hamblin, director of the Botanic Gardens, and will present all the courses regularly given in the winter, session, including classes in surveying, perennisis, freehand drawing, and design. These classes will be open to women, and will include visits to points of architectural interest in the vicinity of Boston...
Professor Shapley, the Director of the Harvard Observatory, who has long University Theatre--"The Awakening" recognized the importance of the variable stars in the study of cosmogony, has laid out an ambitious program for their discovery and investigation. For this purpose, the Milky Way is divided into 240 fields, which are now being examined by a corps of observers, available through an appropriation from the Milton fund...
...accepted his post as Director of Athletics under trying circumstances. Harvard's record in intercollegiate sport was at a low ebb which made the alumni thoroughly dissatisfied with the conduct of the athletic program and disinclined to contribute to its support. More than this, the name of college sport itself was under a cloud of criticism from persons who thought it harmful to the true purposes of a university; at Harvard this criticism was especially strong. If Mr. Bingham has brought harmony and helpful understanding--and he certainly has--out of discord and confusion, his success...