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...moved to ask, is this public stigma fastened upon the Philistine who has never studied Latin, or upon that more unfortunate person who failed to study it enough? The punishment meted out in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" has always seemed to us eminently fitting; yet we had never thought the mere non-Latinist deserved such a brand. But perhaps it is for the benefit of the public. Peter Barnum said the public liked to be fooled; and we certainly fool the public with our pompous scientific degree. Meanwhile, the initiated know that the yellow crow's-foot indicates "not knowledge...
...strides lately taken by the medical profession. "Experiments and tests are the direct factors of medical progress," said Dr. Cannon. He then explained how medical experiment brought about the results previously explained by Dr. Shattuck. "There are yet many obscurities in medical knowledge," said Dr. Cannon; "for instance, scarlet fever, measles, infantile paralysis, and cancer afford wide fields of investigation. The average physician may not make worldwide discoveries, yet, like a picture puzzle, every addition is needed. There is a certain thrill that comes to a man when he makes a great discovery; he realizes that he has found...
Rumors to the effect that Princeton will be forced to be quarantined or disbanded if any more cases of scarlet fever developed, have been declared unfounded by Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft, Director of the Department of Physical Education. The regulation in question, it has been ascertained, applies only to public schools under the jurisdiction of the local board of education, which has no control over Princeton...
...cases of scarlet fever have thus far been discovered in the university, the first of which developed about a week after the Christmas vacation. Three suspected cases are being held under observation, and a number of men who had been associating with them are reporting for daily examination. The source of the infection has not been definitely traced; but it is thought that three of the men contracted the disease while away from college and the others received it from them. All the patients have mild cases and no complications have ensued...
Epidemics of the disease have been prevalent during the past month in Pennsylvania, resulting in the quarantine of Washington and Jefferson College, and in a death from scarlet fever and other complications at the University of Pennsylvania...