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...preliminary trials of the debate for the Pasteur medal will be held Wednesday evening, March 26, at 8 o'clock in Sever 10. Candidates will speak five minutes on either side of the question: "Resolved, that the demilitarization of the left bank of the Rhine, under international supervision, is necessary for the maintenance of peace in Europe." The finals will be held April...
...debate for the medal established in 1898 by Baron Pierre De Coubertin who had been sent by the French government to study American educational institutions. He established contests under the names of Frenchmen of importance in Harvard, Yale, Princeton and a few other colleges, naming the one here after Pasteur. The purpose of the debate is to acquaint American students with French life and institutions...
...debate consists of a five-minute speech by each of six men on a subject important in contemporary French life, the winner receiving the Pasteur medal. The debate is under the joint control of the Debating Council and the French Department...
Among those backing the project are: Dr. Roux, head of the Pasteur Institute; Baronne Lajeune, Le Maréchal Foch, Mme. Louis Stern, Joseph Barthélemy, Dr. Alexander Bruno of the Rockefeller Institute and Professor Albert Calmette. Jean Stern, No. 18 Rue Octave Feuillet, Paris, is Treasurer...
...cause of the disease is unknown. It is particularly common and severe in schools, asylums, foundling homes. For years medical investigators have been attempting to find some method of protection, comparable to the protection now afforded for smallpox, typhoid, diphtheria. In 1916, C. Nicolle and E. Conseil of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis used the serum obtained from a patient convalescing from measles to secure protection against the disease. Last year F. von Torday collected the records of 2,000 cases in which the convalescent serum had been administered, and found that it failed to protect in less than...