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...Germans view it in its classical light. The ancient Greek meaning, and the optic adopted by modern-day Germans, is that the Gymnasium is the harmonic unity between the well-developed body, the brain, and the soul...
...fundamental sounds of the English tongue, the English alphabet has, as every one knows, only 26 letters. Whence it arises that the vocal chords of various parts of the English-speaking world have fallen into various habits of rendering the letter combinations reported to them by their colleagues, the optic nerves...
...performed experiments on rats and rabbits in attempts to find out whether or not an animal with a transplanted eye could see. According to Prof. Imre, Dr. Koppanyi cut the muscles and tissues around the eye-ball and left the eye in place. There was no proof that the optic nerve was cut through. He said, furthermore, that in every case witnessed by physicians in which the eyeball was removed from its place, there never was any other result but complete destruction...
Prof. Imre advanced as his opinion the statement that even if the optic nerve could grow again-which has never been established-and even if there were a possibility of transplanting a complete eye from one man to another, the question could not have any practical importance, because no physician should be allowed to, and no physician with any conscience would, remove an eye with good vision for making a rather uncertain experiment...
Supplementing the letter of Prof. Carlson, Dr. Koppanyi declared (Oct. 11) that the charges of Prof. Imre are not true. He denied that he gave unwarranted publicity to his work. He said that the return of vision is possible, but admitted that the optic nerve was not cut in his eye transplantation experiments...