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Summer is expedition time for scientists. They have catalogued and put away in glass cases their last year's finds. They have written their reports and monographs, given their lectures, attended to home duties, and the irresistible itch to fare forth exploring, examining, collecting is upon them again...
...interpret, and relate to previous knowledge the new knowledge as it appeared. But with the nineteenth century the invigorating winds of a new critical and scientific spirit began to blow across the world. The scientific spirit began hunting, blasting, boring, probing, boiling, cooking, and dissecting. Men, animated by the Itch to know, began to dig up, at a disconcerting rate, all sorts of new, facts and new knowledge. Before long it became apparent that the new knowledge was coming too fast to be digested and fitted intelligently into any educational scheme. And there happened in the educational field the thing...
Mosquito Bane. At Atlantic City, N. J., Dr. William Rudolphs of Rutgers told the 13th annual convention of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association that, after four years' study, hs had found he was safe for two or three hours from the itch-producing proboscides of mosquitoes, no matter how ravenous, after smearing on his epidermis: 14 units of ordinary insect-powder extract and 96 units of vaseline, cold cream or face-powder...
...small group of visitors assembled to see the opening of the Supreme Court, although in several ways it was historic. The fact that none of the seats in the court room are reserved for privileged persons, such as diplomats and friends of the members, helps to quell the itch to get in. And then the members live such quiet lives...
...stick of phosphorus started a fire in the mail car in which he traveled with his printing office and chemicals (he was selling magazines on trains at the time and had a laboratory in one end of the mail car), and later of the young telegraph operator with the itch for invention...