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There are so many Harvard professors addressing public and private gatherings of people anxious or willing to be enlightened, that it is difficult to keep run of them all and consider on their merit their statements of fact. But it wasn't at all difficult to learn that Philip Drinker, "assistant professor of ventilation and illumination at the Harvard School of Public Health" addressed an audience on Sunday at the Harvard Medical School and declared that "Boston is not a particularly smoky city," and "it is almost impossible to inhale coal smoke in sufficient amounts to be harmful...
...secret of Franklin was his memory and his shrewd cleverness. It was easy for him to recall the slightest detail of even distant events, and he had a plan for everything." In spite of his careful creed of moderation, Ben was "cheerful and fond of good living, a hearty drinker and a good story teller." Also, though Author Faÿ does not labor the point, Ben had little saintliness in his blood: in 1785 he had a great-grandson, the illegitimate son of the illegitimate son of his illegitimate son. Author Faÿ, ironic but appreciative, thus describes the meeting...
January 12--Mr. Philip Drinker, "Dust and Health...
...have been perfecting a combination-really a gigantic, cooperative Coffee Trust-which the world has found hard to beat. By systematic hoarding of the Sāo Paulo crop in good years and judicious release of these hoardings in bad they have made each and every U. S. coffee-drinker spend about 50? more per year for his coffee than he otherwise would. The U. S. coffee-drinker spends about $2.20 for raw coffee imported, pays a goodly extra sum to have it roasted, ground, tinned...
...like morphine, and a single glass of beer is sufficient to render some men incapable of driving an automobile safely." Professor Carver agreed heartily with this argument, and added that, in the matter of drunken driving, there is more danger to a community from the actions of a moderate drinker than from a habitual drunkard. "A man" completely intoxicated is not likely to go out and drive a car, whereas a person who has but a few drinks, maybe one or two, will be allowed to drive his car, in doing which he endangers the lives of citizens. The fact...