Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Couzens' establishment of a ten million dollar fund for the betterment of the children of Michigan is not just another philanthropic foundation. For the entire principle and interest is to be spent within twenty-five years and none of the money is to go for scholastic research or for individual aid. The endowment will be used where it will show almost immediate and tangible results. Where others perhaps think for the good of the future in terms of dollars and the study of pure science, the Michigan senator prefers to deal with the human element...
...Many an agent was tried, and many a disappointment ensued. In Chicago Dr. Ludvig Hektoen and Ernest E. Irons wondered at the extent to which U. S. physicians are now using vaccines to cure disease, as against preventing disease. Accordingly they sent questionnaires to specialists and general practitioners in Michigan, Indianapolis, Manhattan and Brooklyn. Of 1,261 physicians reporting only 17 consider vaccine therapy generally useful and superior in treating infectious diseases. That is, in diseases already developed. For immunizing, for protecting against a disease there is very little question that vaccines are good. As immunizers they have guarded myriads...
...unlike the U. S. educational system is Canada's. To each province, as to each U. S. state, is left the administration of public grade schools, high schools, colleges. But Canadian colleges cling to English form and traditions, resemble Harvard, Yale, Princeton rather than the Universities of Michigan, Nebraska, California...
...game was originated at the University of Michigan. It was successful in its first year there and has grown more popular every season. From Michigan it spread rapidly throughout the Middle West and to the coast. It has been adopted in many Eastern schools, but this is the first time it has been sponsored by an Eastern college...
...Insurance Co., Massachusetts Fire & Marine Insurance Co., North Carolina Home Insurance Co., American National Fire Insurance Co., Great American Indemnity Co., Mt. Royal Insurance Co. of Montreal, The Chase National Bank. He has been eagerly active in affairs of Ohio's Kenyon College, and of the University of Michigan, which gave...