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...have been buried after mere certification that their hearts have ceased to beat. Some have come alive in the dark tomb, only to die unsuccored. May it then be that the heart pulsations are not paramount in sustaining life? Such is the theory advanced last week by Dr. Martin Mendelsohn, holder since 1899 of the Chair of Diseases of the Heart at Berlin University. He declared that other tests than cessation of the heartbeats must be made before certifying a patient dead...
Elaborating his thesis, Dr. Mendelsohn said: "The human body's motive power is represented by the cellular activity of the glands and skin in absorbing and excreting liquids which furnish the requisite fuel for the human motor, whereas the heart and blood circulation merely play a regulative role in distributing such fuel and resulting refuse to and from the various motors throughout the body, namely, the internal, glandular and epidermic cells...
...Kazanjian, Chairman, Miss Anna Paul; H. L. Kozol, Miss Ruth Massell; R. B. Schneider, Miss Lillian Mendelsohn; B. S. Alper, Miss Ruth Altman; E. C. Marget, Miss Salome Marget; N. N. Cohen, Miss Betty Cohen...
Tomorrow's program is as follows: First Slavonic Dance Dvorak Overture, "Fingal's Cave" Mendelsohn Waltz, "Artist's Life" Sirauss Fantasia, "Carmen" Bizet Suite from "The Seasons" Tchaikovsky a. April: "Snowdrops" b. June: "Barcarolle" c. November: "The Troika" (Orchestrated by Agide Jac8chia) Love-Death from "Tristan and Isolde" Wagner Serenade Pierne Twelfth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Overture to "Mignon" Thomas Entr'acte Valse Hellmesberger Charge of the Hussars Spindler
...Piston, will involve the use of music by contemporary composers to as great an extent as possible. A further effort will be made to play as many of those compositions as possible which have been composed by member of the University. A few classical numbers, especially those of Mozart, Mendelsohn, Shubert, and Beethoven, will be retained...