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...welcome to Boston and to Harvard, went on to speak of her work, and that of her husband, Professor Pierre Curie. Twenty-five years ago, he said, patient experimentation with uranium which was known to have the property of radio-activity, led to their discovery of two new elements, radium and collonium, which have this property in far greater degree. Then the realization that radium had an immediate medicinal value through its destructive effect on malignant organic growth, made theirs a priceless discovery...
...supposing the mind of man to remain stationary, it would take woman many centuries to produce "the missing five ounces of female brain." If the famous English naturalist had lived to be present this afternoon in Sanders Theatre, where Madame Curie will be honored as the co-discoverer of radium, he would come away with his belief in the inferiority of the feminine intellect dissipated into thin air. Especially would he be delivered of the notion, long held and acquiesced in, that while in some practical fields of mental effort women may be successful, they have no capacity for science...
Professors of chemistry and physics and radium specialists at the University and other neighboring institutions, contributors to the Curie radium fund, and the heads of Radcliffe, Wellesley, Simmons and other colleges, will take part in a meeting of welcome to Madame Curie to be held next Monday afternoon, June 20, at 4 o'clock, at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge...
...Harvey W. Cushing '95 of the Medical School; Dr. Robert B. Greenough '92, head of the Huntington Memorial Hospital for the treatment of cancer; Professor Richards, Dr. J. Collins Warren, and Mr. William Endicott '87. The committee is being assisted in the active arrangements by the Women's Radium Fund Committee...
Tickets have been sent to the contributors to the radium fund and to various college officials and professors in the Boston district, and seats will be reserved for the holders of these tickets until ten minutes berore the opening of the meeting, when the doors will be opened to the public. The committee asks any persons who contributed to the radium fund and have not received tickets to write Professor Percy W. Bridgman, 10 Buckingham Place, Cambridge 38, enclosing a stamped envelope...