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...come over here expecting to find Harvard a hotbed of collegiatism; my disillusionment was most welcome," John Maud, Davidson Scholar from Oxford declared in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter last night. "Coming over on the boat I had read several novels of College life in America, and I must confess that I proceeded to Harvard with the greatest trepedation. Oxford is tremendously amused at the so called 'College Spirit...
...Extra curriculum activities at Oxford are decidedly secondary." Maud answered, responding to a question. "One can serve both God and Mammon there because of their relative importance in our minds. Outside activities are necessary to some extent, but they do not encroach upon the primary motive of our college life, studies. Such a paper as the CRIMSON would be entirely too much of an effort for us to make and still devote ourselves to studies...
...Sanitorium, Miss., for his lofty "Certified by Centuries of Service." Tersely quieting the fears of those who worry about deforestation, the slogan, "Wood, Use It-Nature Renews It," won second prize ($2,000) for Mrs. Dora Davis Farrington of Interlaken, N. J. Less clever, by one word, a Mrs. Maud Burt of Marshalltown, Iowa, thought of "Use It-Nature Renews It," got third prize...
Cancer. Dr. Maud Slye of Chicago University said that the Mendelian law of heredity applied to cancer susceptibility and cancer resistance developed through 67,000 individual studies on mice. Persistently Pathologist Slye bred the reliable rodents. Twenty years she worked and has finally concluded that cancer is not contagious, but tendencies for or against it can be inherited in mice. Twenty-five generations has she bred absolutely free of cancer because the original stock had been eugenically chosen. Cancerous ancestors infallibly transmitted the disease down the generations infallibly. Said Dr. Slye: "If we could manage human breeding as expertly...
Meeting in the flag-draped Hall of Colorado at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Denver, the convention was greeted by Maud Ballington Booth, co-commander of the Volunteers of America. Said Mrs. Booth: "It is women's lot to serve and love. By serving and loving we bring into the hearts of men on earth the peace of heaven...