Word: philadelphian
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...prominent Philadelphian suffering from sleeping sickness completely recovered after several injections of the Mayo serum for the disease, administered by Dr. John A. Kolmer, professor of bacteriology in the University of Pennsylvania and a director of the Research Institute for Cutaneous Medicine. The paralysis which usually follows encephalitis has not developed. The serum was discovered by Dr. E. C. Rosenow, of the Mayo Laboratories, Minnesota. Although the new remedy has not been proved to be a conclusive cure, it offers hope that the present outbreaks of the disease in New York and Philadelphia may be successfully combatted...
...Class A includes the more important and more exacting offices:-managers of the four major sport teams, Chairman and Business Manager of the Princeton-fan, Chairman of the Undergraduate Schools Committee, President of the Philadelphian Society, and Chairman of the Press Club...
...Soccer is a fine game, a good game in itself and valuable in the influence it exerts in bringing into athletic competition boys who would otherwise have no intercollegiate sport medium. The writer confesses to a lack of knowledge concerning the finer points of the game, but a Philadelphian--the home of soccer--has thus set down his impressions of the various teams of the Intercollegiate League; Pennsylvania he says, was the most adept, showing a greater knowledge of the game and playing it with a higher degree of skill than any of the other teams...
...course, philanthropy does involve sacrifice of some sort; of course, social service will take time that might be more selfishly spent. These must be the drawbacks that Harvard is aiming to obviate by placing a premium upon personal advancement--a most excellent plan; but the Philadelphian Society and the Town Club are nevertheless to be commended for their superannuated conservatism...
John Alexander Hull Keith, Sp., of Illinois, was graduated in 1894 from the Illinois State Normal University at Bloomington, Ill. In this institution the students are equally divided into two societies. keith represented the Philadelphian Society against the Wright onian Society for two years-in 1893 in debate, and in 1894 in oration, which he won. After his graduation he taught for two years in his alma mater. In the fall of 1896 he was admitted to the University of Chicago, but finally decided to come to Harvard, where he entered as a special...