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...children who never had had measles were exposed to measles in Drs. McKhann & Chu's hospital. Ordinarily every one of them would have caught it. So the doctors took a small risk by injecting each child with the placental extract. Fourteen children showed no signs of measles. The fifteenth had a mild attack...
When Harvard, Cornell and Dartmouth meet in then fifteenth annual Triangular Meet at the Boston garden tomorrow night, coach Harry Hellman of the Big green may find his athletes for the first time in years in position to step in and capitalize on the Harvard-Cornell battle and walk off with meet honors, which will make the Hanover boys very happy...
Marie Antoinette had several popular nicknames, all indicative of her unpopularity. The first, ''The Austrian," was founded strictly on fact. Fifteenth and next-to-last child of Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria. Marie Antoinette was condemned by her scheming mother, by the diplomatic system of Europe, to be a political pawn. Married off young to the French Dauphin, lethargic Louis XVI ("whose greatest achievement was to go to bed at eleven o'clock every night") she soon found her married life was to have no pretense of love, not even (until Louis finally consented to an operation...
...Boylston prize, the third oldest award of the University, was founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in honor of his uncle, who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, and will be awarded this year for the one hundred and fifteenth time...
...History of Spanish Painting," by C. R. Post '04, professor of Greek and Fine Arts, deals with the influence of the Flemish upon the Spanish painters in the latter part of the fifteenth century. Explaining the solidifying effect of the uniting of the kingdoms of Castile and Leon by the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella, Post shows how the arts were able to flourish under these two great patrons. This is the fourth of a series of ten or fifteen volumes which will cover the entire history of Spanish painting...