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Puzzling is the constant (endemic) presence of mild typhus fever in a certain few sections of the U. S. Hospitals in the Atlantic Coast cities from Boston south always have a few cases. They appear in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas. Alabama, Georgia and Florida have quite the largest number sick with typhus. But Mississippi or Louisiana have had none reported to health officers. Tampa, Pensacola, Mobile, Galveston and Houston (among Gulf cities) have had their mild affliction, and the lower Rio Grande Valley from Laredo to Mercedes. On the Pacific Coast only Los Angeles has reported a considerable...
...Feng the Mighty" is still master of the world's largest private army, a largely self-supporting band of 150,000 men, each schooled in some useful trade (TIME, July 2). Just now the new Nationalist Government of China is engaged in disbanding its total armies of 1,500,000 men; and Marshal Feng, as the Nationalist War Minister, cannot very well keep his own superb force together while the others disband, without some excellent excuse. Last week he seemed to have found it in a word: SHANTUNG...
...following article was written expressly for the Crimson by Dr. Annie J. Cannon, Curator of Astronomical Photographs at the Harvard Observatory, where there is the largest and most valuable collection of astronomical photographs in the world. Dr. Cannon is recognized as the most eminent woman astronomer, and is the author of the Henry Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra, in which a quarter of a million stars are classified...
...most interesting parts of the exhibit as it shows the steps in the development of a fossil, the appearance of which is vividly pictured in the fossilized slab before mentioned. Among the invertebrates is a fossil shell of a mollusk, which is one of the largest in the world, being nine and a half feet in length. Only a part of this gigantic shell is present, the entire specimen is estimated at about 14 feet. This mollusk shell once lived in an ancient ocean, located over what is now the northern part of the state of New York...
...radical change in the Harvard Interscholastic games which will make the affair one of the largest gatherings of schoolboy athletes in the country is to be undertaken this spring according to an announcement given out by the Athletic Association yesterday...