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...male and a female of the shyest of all species of African antelopes, the Bongo, and a Giant Forest Hog, so large that it might be mistaken for a small rhinoceros, are the latest very valuable additions to the mammal collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. The animals were shot by Frederick G. Carnochan '13 on a recent trip to East Africa...
...demonstrated how to cultivate germs, when in 1884 Dr. Smith -who was then only 25, and the late Dr. Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850-1914) who was then 34-proposed creating immunity against disease with products of the bacteria which caused the disease. With this idea they immunized pigeons against hog cholera. Their method rationalized the whole subject of vaccination. It promptly led to the invention of diphtheria antitoxin...
...with three castaways discovered last fortnight by Julius Fleischmann (TIME, Nov. 2), who sailed away in the opposite direction on his yacht Camargo. The castaways- Elmer J. Palliser, Paul Stackwick, Gordon Brawner-were in fair health, but fat and flabby from their six-month diet of coconuts and wild hog...
...might have disconcerting effect and, as Grove was likely to win anyway, there was little to be lost in trying it. For two innings, it appeared that the strategy had been brilliant. In the warm, bright afternoon, the crowd that filled Sportsman's Park chortled and cheered; a hog-caller who had begged his way to St. Louis from Arkansas appalled his section of the grandstand by making curious noises. Derringer, whose brother owns a drugstore in West Frankfort, Ill., and who pitched his first professional game at Gary, W. Va. with famed Sheriff William Hatfield for an umpire...
...farm, some 70 years ago, and I presume up to now, it was often said of a man that he was "independent as a hog on ice: if he can't stand up he can lie down." The explanatory half of the saying dropped out of use as obvious. TIME might have more pertinently retorted to the gentleman from Indiana...