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Your recent editorial on the drinker Respirator suit failed to make wholly clear the principal point oat issue. The question is whether universities shall allow their professors to use for private gain scientific and medical discoveries made under the university auspices, on tax-free premises. The problem is of wise importance, for it confronts not Harvard alone, but all the great universities and research foundations of the country...
...striking example of the public injury that can arise from the policy mentioned above, of allowing university instructors to monopolize discoveries for their private gain. If Collins wins the suit, the public may be deprived of a life-saving apparatus considered by competent authorities to be better than the "Drinker Respirator" and selling at a price $500.00 lower. It is because the case is so clear as a test of the principles involved that it is attracting wide attention. David L. Garrison...
Inventor Macneil was not the only one playing last week with infra-red rays. At Schenectady, General Electric Co. installed in its main office an infra-red drinking fountain. When a drinker lowers his head over the fountain he intercepts the rays and a stream of water is turned on. Drinkers were at first too awed to drink...
Mail addressed in the past few months "To the Gamest Kid in America" has found its way directly to Clarence Hastings, City Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y. He was 14 and a hero, having lived in a Drinker respirator one day longer than anyone else. His runner-up was Birdsall Sweet, also 14, of Beacon, N. Y. The infantile paralysis epidemic of last summer and autumn (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante) had put them in respirators, big sheet steel cans which made a bellows of their listless lungs, pumped air into them (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930; Sept. 21). Stories of Clarence...
...medals, carrying with them an award of $1000, were presented to Philip Drinker and L. A. Shaw '09 of the Harvard School of Public Health, at a meeting of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia last Wednesday night...