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...Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. John Scudder has tried an extract of the adrenal cortex (eschatin) to save patients already in shock after operations and severe burns. In a newly published text (Shock-Lippincott-$5.50) he reported that cortical extract snatched 14 persons from death after transfusions and oxygen had failed...
Actually, this border Scot had already packed five noteworthy careers into his amazingly versatile life, was fully equipped with energy and brains to start another at 60. A poor boy (his father was a Presbyterian parson), he had put himself through Glasgow University and Oxford with the help of scholarships and by writing, even before he left Oxford, his first book, Scholar-Gypsies. He went up to London, was admitted to the bar, then, on the strength of his brilliant record at Oxford, was made secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. In South Africa he turned...
Three months after General Lee surrendered at Appomattox in 1865, the first issue of a new liberal weekly called The Nation appeared in Manhattan. Founder and editor was a shy, 33-year-old, Irish Presbyterian, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, who had emigrated to the U. S. nine years earlier. His associate editor, Wendell Phillips Garrison, was the son of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. The Nation (named after a fiery Dublin weekly) announced that its purpose was to defend "free inquiry and free endeavor...
After college Edward Harkness became a railroad director, but he soon decided to devote himself chiefly to giving away his money. One of his undergraduate friends was Dean Sage, who visioned a Manhattan medical centre to be created by combining the Presbyterian Hospital (of which he was later president) and Columbia University School of Medicine. Mr. Harkness made the medical centre a fact, eventually gave to it and to Columbia some $30,000,000. Another Yale friend was Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, later president of Union Theological Seminary. Mr. Harkness gave the seminary $1,250,000. Still another friend...
...fortune, Edward Harkness died. Last week his will was filed. How much was left, no one knew, but it was still considerable. Most of it went to Edward Harkness' widow. When she dies, the Commonwealth Fund (founded by Edward's mother) will get half, the Presbyterian Hospital a quarter and the rest will be divided among Columbia, Yale, Harvard, St. Paul's, Hampton Institute, Atlanta University, the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two New York City charities. To 78 employes who had helped him distribute his philanthropies, Edward Harkness left...