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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edison was a genius, but a genius can be a hard father to grow up with. Gifted with none of his father's inventive fire, blessed with a great appreciation for the important trivia of living, young Charles Edison spread his share of wild oats around Llewellyn Park, N. J., where the family reigned in feudal quietude. Not until he had labored through Massachusetts Institute of Technology and settled down in the business end of the loosely joined "Edison Industries" did Charles Edison get along really well with Thomas Edison. As Charles gradually took over the management from...
Last week Dr. Firor told members of the Society of University Surgeons, meeting at Rochester, N. Y., the conclusions of his research. As long as tetanus toxin has not had time to enter the spinal cord, he said, tetanus antitoxin can neutralize the poison and check the disease. But once toxin enters the cord, it somehow becomes transformed into a new poison. "The new substance is not attacked by the present antitoxin," said Dr. Firor. In answer to questions of enthusiastic colleagues, he said that he will shortly try to prepare a second antitoxin which will cure the final stages...
Biggest dog-show in the world is Cruft's of Great Britain. The first show was given n 1886 by Charles Cruft, who began his career serving behind the counter of a dog-biscuit shop. Ever since Queen Vic toria entered her collie and three Pomeranians in 1891, the show has been held ach year in Islington's mammoth old, red brick Royal Agricultural Hall. At its olden Jubilee Show three years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered...
...year today when it meets the Hartford Fencing Club. The team will be: Foil--Cranston E. Jones '40, Ben B. Johnson '41, and Albert H. Labastie '40: Epee--Lyn A. Brun '41, J. William Croach '40, Amos B. Murphy '41, and Halford W. Park '40: Sabre--Captain N. Horton Batchelder '39, Robert R. Batt '41, Joseph T. Doyle '39 and Thomas W. Wright...
...Freshmen skating in the Yard last night set a new high in undergraduate ingenuity. The skaters, Munroe A. Winter '42 and Whitall N. Perry '42, both of Hollis Hall, taking advantage of the layer of ice left on the ground by the freak weather of Wednesday, glided between Gray's and Weld for over an hour and a half...