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...metals in extremely minute traces have a powerful germicidal effect was discovered in 1893. Only a few millionths of a gram per litre of water will kill germs. The silver which dissolves from a plate simply immersed in the water is enough. Thus treated is the water supply of Heidelberg, and there are many other installations in Germany, England, Switzerland. Two years ago the swimming pool of the Congressional Country Club in Washington became the first silvered pool...
...Conant, crack researcher in chlorophyll (the green coloring matter of plants), graciously invited his outstanding rival, Chemist Dr. Hans Fischer of the University of Munich. A resounding roll of Nobel Prize winners included three physicists: Arthur Holly Compton (Chicago), Niels Bohr (Copenhagen), Werner Heisenberg (Leipzig); three chemists: Friedrich Bergius (Heidelberg), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (Cambridge), Theodor Svedberg (Upsala, Sweden...
Invitations have also been sent to the undergraduate bodies of 43 American colleges and to Oxford, Cambridge, Bologna, Tokyo, Peiping, Heidelberg, the Sorbonne, and Melbourne. Student delegates will represent these institutions at a reception on Wednesday afternoon, September 16, a function which will formally open the Undergraduate Celebration...
...anti-Nazi demonstrations of the most discourteous sort were thought to be necessary, and were only quashed by the constabulary. The bad taste which characterized the fracas at one of the "Bremen" sailings last year has recently been exhibited again in more intense form in the controversy over Heidelberg's invitations. If the hissing that accompanies newsreel shots of the "Hindenburg" is any criterion by which to judge a general attitude, than the visit of Germany's new airship will be a total loss so far as that nebulous international bluff, good-will, is concerned...
Following a heated discussion at Phillips Brooks House last night, the Harvard Student Union defeated, by the close margin of 25-24, a resolution urging President Conant to withdraw Harvard's representative to the 550th anniversary celebration at Heidelberg University this June...