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...Dowling himself explored the mater of resistant strains of germs, which appear after a patient has been given a particular antibiotic for some time, and may make further treatment useless. There s no need, he suggested, to fear that the world's bacterial population will learn to defeat man's antibiotic weapons. The varieties of bacteria which have not yet shown resistance to antibiotics probably never will learn to do so, said Internist Dowling. These, fortunately, include most of the bacteria which cause acute infections: the pneumococcus, more than half the streptococci, meningococcus, gonococcus and the spirochete...
...Higginson--sponsor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Memorial Hall--gave to his alma mater the broad swamps across the Charles that are new occupied by the Business School and the athletic plant, Soldiers' Field...
...right now, Columbia is still searching for a stronger, more reliable program that will strengthen the whole admissions system. A large fault of the weakness can be attributed to the alumni; compared to the old Princetons, Harvards and Yales, they lack tub-thumping spirit for the alma mater. The result is the college for the most part finds itself doing too much of the contact work, and has no strong organization outside of the immediate New York area...
Since Harvard is the oldest, richest and in most ways best on American universities, inevitably it has the biggest literature. Perhaps too big, for the average Harvard man is not the type to go rummaging through several hundred volumes is search of material about his alma mater. Some of the best tidbits have been buried in otherwise dull reports or hidden as episodes in novels, waiting for someone to disinter them and compile an anthology...
Lawrence, Pusey soon found, has many ties with his alma mater. Amos Lawrence, its founder, was the brother of Abbott Lawrence, President Lowell's grandfather, and was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and a heavy contributor to the building of Memorial Hall. Perhaps as atonement for this architectural sin or perhaps because the land was of no use to him (the Lawrence won renown for their frugality) he donated some Wisconsin acreage he had acquired to the Rock River Conference of the Methodist Church to use in founding a college...