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...international conference in Louvain, 200 Dutch Nationalists staged an anti-Belgium riot. They threw stones, hissed, unfolded Orange banners, cried "Long Live Wilhelmina! Down with Belgium...
...unfeeling sceptics have insinuated that it was all moonshine. But Dr. Eddy showed a group of his colleagues four test tubes containing 70 milligrams of a crystalline substance, Vitamine D, which he prefers to call by the name of "bios" first used by Professor Wildiers, of the University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1900. It was extracted from a solution of autolyzed (self-digested) yeast. It is an organic chemical structure composed of 43% carbon, 25% nitrogen, 8% hydrogen and 24% not yet completely analyzed...
...sister of five Harvard graduates" is the only name given by the only woman to subscribe to the Alumni Bulletin's Louvain Library Fund, according to announcement made in this week's issue of the Bulletin which will appear this morning...
Vitamins. Two new vitamins, "Bios I" and "Bios II," have been found by Dr. W. Lash Miller, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Toronto. A substance called bios (life) was discovered 20 years ago by a Belgian professor at Louvain University, but Dr. Miller, in experimenting on yeast, found that minute quantities of this substance greatly stimulated the growth of cells. In attempting to extract it from wort, he found that it could be split into the two new compounds...
Hopes of completing the library of the University of Louvain in 1925 have sagged because American money has ceased its flow. Building operations have been suspended...