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...This wasn't like normal flu," says Frank Snowden, Yale University's chair of the history of science and medicine department. "Physicians were horrified by what they saw. People's lungs filled with this terrible frothy fluid. They were literally choking to death. It was ghastly." Symptoms appeared so suddenly that victims sometimes died within just one day. The flu hit World War I soldiers especially hard; some historians believe more soldiers died from the flu than from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flu Vaccine | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...Another campus that's reforming is Tokyo's Waseda University. Four years ago, Waseda launched a new School of International Liberal Studies as a testing ground for "enforced artificial internationalism," as Paul Snowden, the school's dean, describes it. All classes are taught in English. The school as a matter of policy recruits one-third of its students from overseas, from countries as far away as Iceland and Uganda. The strategy seems to be working. Since it opened, the program has seen enrollment grow at an annual average rate of 15%. "This school is dragging Waseda kicking and screaming into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Class Dismissed | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

DIED. Frank Snowden Jr., 95, Howard University classicist and pioneer in the field of blacks in antiquity; in Washington. He developed a passion for the field at the Boston Latin School and Harvard and went on to write books, including Before Color Prejudice, showing that ancient Greece was comparatively free of the violent racism that plagued later Western nations. One of the explanations he offered was that Greeks and Romans first encountered blacks as soldiers and mercenaries, not as slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 12, 2007 | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...bladder to comprehend. I’m saying, let’s not fall for any Yale pranks this year, folks. Alumni, I’m looking at you—no undergrads I know were part of that debacle two years ago. Shameful.7. A copy of Basic Vision (Snowden, et al). For those of you who also made the mistake of enrolling in a science core with a midterm the Monday before Thanksgiving. Cheers, Sara Dear Sara,I have recently found myself on some academically shaky ground, and it’s taking a real toll on my inbox...

Author: By Sara J. Culver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DEAR SARA | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...violent attempts to control black political dissent [WORLD, July 29] are doomed to failure. Ultimately the young black militants will be driven into the arms of the Communists, who will provide these angry and frustrated revolutionaries with guerrilla training and weapons. Then the bloodbath will really start. James Snowden Long Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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