Word: setonism
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...success of the Peterson guides lies in their difference from earlier bird books, which were primarily artistic (like Audubon's) or coldly scientific treatises on dead specimens in museums. Peterson, a sometime art student and teacher, got the idea (from Ernest Thompson Seton's Two Little Savages') for schematic representations of birds as they are usually seen-at a distance, in flight or bobbing on the water. He has refined the idea into what he calls "the Peterson system." Under this system, major groups of birds are distinguished by obvious, overall characteristics. As he points...
...while some viruses are under indictment as causative factors in certain forms of cancer, others may be helpful in treating the disease. Dr. Bernard Briody of New Jersey's Seton Hall University told the meeting that the cowpox virus (used in smallpox vaccine) kills some cancer cells and retards the growth of mouse cancers. For once, medical scientists did not have to wait years to get evidence of a similar effect in man. By coincidence, Yokohama University's Professor Yoshikuni Noguchi reported simultaneously that he was getting encouraging though temporary results in treating skin cancers (especially...
Once in New York she decided to stay a while. She got a job in Seton Hospital, first as a secretary, later as an X-ray and laboratory assistant. The young doctors and interns gave her a merry social life, and she tried to save money for the longed-for education. After two years, the call of college became irresistible, and Pat collected her bus ticket and went back to Los Angeles (by way of Niagara Falls, at no extra charge). Bill and Tom made room for her in their tiny apartment near the University of Southern California. One morning...
Because of the drop in qualified applicants, Funkenstein added, schools are forced to accept students whom they know cannot pass. Thus, the failure rate in medical schools has increased by one-third. Despite hopes that the opening of the Seton Hall and Albert Einstein medical schools would attract more students, no substantial improvement has yet occurred, he said...
...After that," said Warsley, "a flood of mail came in-6,000 to 8,000 letters. We were in business." Warsley (Seton Hall '24) opened his classroom magazine to the avalanche of unsolicited subscriptions, in a few years was sending out the magazine to subscribers in England, Ireland, Greece, Turkey, Rhodesia, Ceylon, India and Tonga, as well...