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...plant was bombed. Many were injured, 20 killed. "O, you anarchic scum," cried General Otis, "you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!" Viewing the destruction of the building, in ruins save for a portion of wall where perched the Times eagle, a local poet named Drayton Pitts spontaneously declaimed...
...conference such as Teachers College is forever holding, they were nearly unanimous about one thing. On the U. S. platter are three billions for public works. How about a slice for Education? Dean William Fletcher Russell asked for "a fair share," at once, in any form. Professor George Drayton Strayer asked for a billion. Six State Commissioners of Education gloomily chorused about retrenchments, pay cuts and shut-down schools in Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Washington, Massachusetts and Maine. Two of them pleaded piteously for Federal...
...among the outstanding institutions of its kind in the country, are two tests which using various forms of fungi as mediums, are of great general, as well as technical and scientific interest. One experiment, which deals with the sexual reproduction of fungi, is being conducted by Dr. F. L. Drayton, a National Research Fellow and L. H. Ames 3G. Dr. G. A. Ledingham, research assistant at the Laboratories, is in charge of the second test, and is investigating the nuclear division of certain species of fungi...
...biologists from all parts of the world who are interested in research. At present the research staff includes eight graduate students, who are working for their decorate, three men who have already received their Ph.D.'s, two National Research Follows, and one research assistant. Dr. Ledingham and Dr. Drayton are both Canadians; the former comes to Harvard this year from the University of Toronto, and the latter from Cornell University, where he received his doctorate. Ames came to the Laboratories three years ago from the Ohio Agricultural Experimental Station...
...Drayton and Ames have discovered several new and important facts, about certain types of fungi in their experiment. Nothing has been known until very recently about the sexual reproduction of fungi. Through their experiments these men have discovered that in the types of fungi they studied a single spore gives rise to a fungus plant, which produces both types of fungi they studied a single spore gives rise to fungus plant, which produces both types of reproductive organs. It is therefore hermaphroditic. But, the interesting point is that the fungus is both self-sterile and cross-fertile a condition which...