Word: lipmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of California, Professor Charles Bernard Lipman, plant physiologist, took a chunk of pre-Cambrian rock. The piece came from Canada. Geologists considered it 100 to 200 million years old. Professor Lipman split the chunk and from the fractured surfaces scraped what he hoped were primeval microbes...
After a time Professor Lipman noted a new murkiness in his sealed tubes. Something surely was growing therein. He waited a while longer. Then he examined the growths under the microscope...
...Scientists coupled this observation with the known fact that soil qualities modify the characteristics of peoples through the plant life eaten directly or indirectly (through herbivorous animals). Example: In Switzerland where iodine is rare, goitre is common. Feeblemindedness and dwarfism are therefore frequent. The recommendation of Dean Jacob G. Lipman of the Rutgers College of Agriculture was that agriculturists go still further in seeking what proper elements their soil lacks and intelligently supply the deficiency in fertilizers...
...Freshman and University tennis. Beginning last fall, when 216 men entered the University tennis tournament, the largest in the history of the sport at Harvard, record numbers of aspirants have reported for play. The singles tournament was distinguished by many close matches, and was finally won by R. L. Lipman 3L., who defeated L. A. deTurenne '21, captain of the University team for 1920-1921, in the finals. With deTurenne, Lipman also holds the University doubles championship...
Among the remedies that Professor Lipman proposes is "the reduction of the number of students in every institution by the system of admission only through strict entrance examinations." To this Dr. Brown responds that the economy in university expenditure through an artificial limitation would involve not only a waste of human values but a check upon our national aspirations...