Word: particularly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unrestricted form of the gift will permit not only the purchase of books, but also scholarships, special investigations, and a generally broad application of funds to the particular field for which a preference has been expressed...
...Guide" contains an account of the founding of the University, its constitution and departments, and the position in the University of the various faculties. There is an historical sketch of the Yard from its earliest beginnings to the present time. Of particular interest in the description of the fence and the various gates, and the history of the grounds and buildings. The closing section of the "Guide" is devoted to a review of student life at Harvard, athletics, journalism, clubs, Commencement, and Class...
...this is of particular moment to the world because the recent crisis in the activities of the Experts' Committee now meeting in Paris has been reflected in Germany in accelerated outflow of gold, and the adverse movement of the foreign exchanges...
...policy, formerly pursued by the University, of giving books within a student's particular field of concentration has been somewhat changed this year, and instead books are being presented which are of more general bibliographical interest. More copies than usual have been bought directly from London book-stores, and on the list there are a number of "press" books, exact replicas of world-famous editions. Except in a few cases where the contemporary cloth bindings are of such interest as to be worth preserving, all volumes are bound in calf or morocco. The seal and bookplate of the Hopkins Fund...
...doctors have found little use for vaccines to cure disease, the open-minded American Medical Association hastened, last fortnight, to publish the facts. Vaccines immunize against specific infection. For several years doctors, further, have believed that diligent experiment would show them a vaccine, serum, or antitoxin * to cure any particular disease. 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...