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...latest issue of a medical journal, the Lancet. Previous announcements (TIME, July 20), had informed them that in that journal would appear articles by Dr. W. E. Gye, a one-time ticket agent, by Mr. J. E. Barnard, a prosperous hatter, describing their attempts to isolate the cancer germ. Efforts to obtain advance copies of this gazette by judicious bribing of printers, proofreaders, carriers, had failed. The crowd waited. At 5:30 in the afternoon, the Lancet was issued...
...became clear, for all the absurd extravagance of public rumor, that something unusual was afoot. Last week Mr. John Edwin Barnard, Hon. Secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society, permitted his name to be attached to an announcement: He and his colleagues believed that they had isolated the cancer germ ... A minute disturbance in a ray of light revealed by the most intricate methods of microscopy ever devised... Highly satisfactory experiments upon mice, in whose tissues, inflamed with coal tar, the injected cancer organism produced both sarcoma and carcinoma*. . . Experiments in far too early a stage to warrant any gabble about...
...just 16 prescribed courses composed the curriculum of the College; in 1850 these courses remained, changed a little in character yet not in number; in 1875 they still clung on, but with only two years of life ahead of them. The germ of the new Harvard lay not in those time-honored 16 prescribed courses, but in the 12 elective courses that were introduced into the curriculum between 1825 and 1850. The expansion of these, and the growth of the examination period that inevitably went with it, is a barometer of the development of the University...
Such an experiment, perhaps the germ of a wider literary movement, has come at a propitious time. The much-abused and misunderstood renaissance of America's younger generation, of which the flapper-is commonly considered the only product, is-well started. Youth has asserted itself variously and with considerable effect. Up to this time it has had to fight for recognition and being immature, has in its enthusiasm acted often rashly or gone to sensational extremes. All contests for independence are characterized by such exhibitions--witness the French Revolution...
...Broadway show life, trooped expectantly to this first production of The Stagers. The group, which proposes to forge through a year of intelligent productions under this name, is headed by Edward Goodman. Mr. Goodman was of old the shepherd of the Washington Square Players in those days when the germ of the now imposing Theatre Guild was generating in Greenwich Village...