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...Edward Hicks Hume, founder of the Yale-n-China Medical College, recently published a fascinating little book on old Chinese remedies The Chinese Way in Medicine; Johns Hopkins Press, $2.25). Dr. Hume points out that ancient Chinese doctors, dusty as they may seem, were he first in history to use: 1) liver as an antidote for anemia; 2) iron-bearing seaweed for thyroid disease; 3) ephedrine for colds...
...Hume had had no easy time. He first tried his idea in partnership with another Catholic educator named Jesse Locke. But Locke and Hume (not to be confused with the 17th-and 18th-Century British philosophers) failed to hit it off. Then Nelson Hume met Catholic Capitalists Henry O. Havemeyer (railroads) and the late Clarence Mackay (Postal Telegraph), got an $8,000 stake to start his school. He named it for his baptismal saint, Edmund of Canterbury...
...they offered special prayers to St. Michael, escaped without a single case of the flu. The school later installed a $7,500 stained-glass window in honor of St. Michael and the "Canterbury saints." For his "outstanding work in Catholic education" Pope Pius XI two years ago made Dr. Hume a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great...
Otherwise, Canterburians (tuition and board: $1,500) lead a normal prep-school existence. On their campus are no priests or monks; 77% of them have gone on to non-Catholic colleges. Headmaster Hume (known to Canterburians as "the Doc") makes them study hard (eight classes a day). Each afternoon a Canterburian puts on a dark blue or grey suit, white shirt and black shoes (Eton collars and patent-leather pumps were discarded about ten years ago) for tea. Canterbury boys get no demerits, but for good behavior they get two extra days off at Christmas and Easter vacations. Few Canterburians...
...boisterous lower-formers. The story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...