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Lately Germany announced that it could make silk for a lady's stocking out of the lobster shells left from her supper party (TIME, Dec. 6). Last week Engineer Kurt Gerson of Berlin went further. He said he could make silk purses out of sows' ears, boars' ankles," potato peelings, toothpicks and all manner of garbage. In a large factory now being constructed under his specifications, kitchen refuse will be sifted for the cellulose ingredients of artificial silk or, if desired, gun cotton. The remaining refuse will be distilled for tar, charcoal, acetic acid...
...Wolfert Gerson Webber, A.B., M.D., Edward Hickling Bradford Fellow in Medical Research...
...other members of the Faculty have also just entered Government service. MacIver Woody '07, Secretary of the Medical Faculty, has left his work to enter the Medical Corps and Wolfert Gerson Webber '09, M. D. '13, Charles Follen, Folsom Teaching Fellow in Hygiene, of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, has been commissioned in the Medical Reserve Corps
...following appointments were made: Wolfert Gerson Webber '09 as Charles Follen Folsom Teaching Fellow in Hygiene, Arthur Bliss Seymour as Assistant in Cryptogamic Herbarium, Thorndike Saville '14 as Assistant in Government, Caleb Perry Patterson as Assistant in Government, Carl Wallace Miller as Assistant in Physics, Howard Belding Gill '14 as Assistant in Marketing, C. W. McClure as Alumni Assistant in Medicine, Don Lorenzo Stevens as Assistant in Public Utilities Operation, Andrew Watson Sellards '05 as Associate in Tropical Medicine, Varaztad Hohannes Kazanjian '05 as Demonstrator in Prosthetic Dentistry, James Bryant Conant '14 as Instructor in Chemistry, Harlan True Stetson...
...Louis J. Gerson of the University of Pennsylvania "Courier" was in town Wednesday...