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...Weston Jr. '15, Assistant Professor of Botany, to continue an intensive comparative study of a group of parasitic fungi which cause the several downy mildew diseases of important food crops...
When ten police men came to take him to court, he fought them off, until one of them grabbed his arms from behind. He went to court and sullenly assured the judge that he was not crazy. The judge saw two enormous fungi where his ears should have been but these were not, he thought, sufficient in dication of mental balance. Nelson was sent to the psychopathic hospital for observation...
Weston Studies Fungi...
...Assistant Professor of Botany, told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, "I hope that I shall have been able to put into a systematic form the large amount of material which I have collected during the past eight years, and thus make possible a clear and inclusive study of the various fungi which have proved so destructive to crops, particularly in Oriental countries, and whose precise nature and habits have until very recently been but little known. By comparing the material gained from all over the world we hope to gain a better knowledge of these destructive organisms. It is to defray...
...night until the sun began to rise when spores would gradually cease to be produced." Professor Weston said that perhaps the most extraordinary thing of all was that when he had left the Philippines he found that the same thing took place at practically the same hours in similar fungi which were attacking crops in Minnesota and Florida...