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...will carry on the experiments. There are only two Blair Fellowships providing for a year of graduate research in Engineering in an American university, the holders of which are chosen from the whole British Empire. Alexander, a graduate of Cambridge University, and Brown, who graduated from the University of Glasgow, are both specializing in the same field, and have both been working on the same problem, that of perfecting diesel engines for airplane use. They will combine forces this year in an effort to solve the problem...
...understood that the opening speakers will be three men from three universities in Great Britain, one from the University of Glasgow, one from the University of London, and if possible, one from a university in Wales...
...Glasgow Wells...
Died. Lady Anne Lauder, 58, wife of Sir Harry Lauder; in Glasgow (see p. 13). Died. Walter J. Travis, onetime amateur golf champion (1900, 1901, 1908); in Denver (see page...
...scarcely 60 years since hospitals were like charnel houses. Every other patient then carried into a hospital for surgical treatment, was carried out dead of blood poisoning, his wound a stinking fester. Joseph Lister, a young surgeon in Glasgow, smelled at the festers. They reminded him of sewage; and sewage reminded him of how the city of Carlisle was deodorizing its wastes-by carbolic acid. He slopped carbolic acid on the open wounds of accident cases brought to him. The acid worked; it prevented development of horrid "hospital gangrene." Joseph Lister had discovered antisepsis and thenceforth surgery became cleanly. Surgeons...