Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dengue fever is a scourge of hot climates. When, five years ago, it swept across the southern states from Texas to Georgia, 2,000,000 cases were reported. It is always prevalent in the Philippines. Could dengue be carried by the Aedes egypti, the mosquito against whose whining depredations Dr. Walter S. Reed won his famous "yellow fever victory" a quarter of a century ago? Medical officers asked, like Dr. Reed, for volunteers; 75 soldiers sent in their names, were exposed to the mosquito, developed dengue. That was a year ago. Now, as a result of that experiment, dengue cases...
Alastair M. Adamson, St. Andrews, zoology at the University of Southern California; Frank N. Astbury, Liverpool University, architecture at Columbia; Ian William M. A. Black, St. Andrews, chemistry at Yale; Margaret E. Cranswick, King's College, London, education at Columbia; Robert Fisher, Herford College, Oxford, economics at Yale; Isabella Gordon, Aberdeen and Imperial College of Science, London, Zoology at Stanford; Hilda A. C. Green, Westfield College, London, literature at Pennsylvania; Donald B. Harden, Trinity College, Cambridge and Aberdeen; archaeology at Michigan; Richard L. Lechmere-Oertel, Birmingham, mining engineering at Columbia; Edward P. Mumford, Christ's College; Cambridge, entomology at California...
...game with North Carolina, which has been a feature of the Harvard schedule for the past two years, has been omitted for next season. The Carolinians have held the Southern Championship for the past four years but have lost both of their games with Harvard by close scores. They are not making the northern trip this winter...
...hurdle record was set aside by a Southern Californian, who pounced the distance in 23 2/5 sec., steeplechasing over obstacles in what was formerly fairly good time for a straightaway...
...records established in a single competition was the phenomenal result of the two days' meet. The University of Southern California snared major honors with ten points better than the closest opponent Leland Stanford University. Yale, only one-sixth of a point behind, took third; Harvard, fourth. The athletes from California had repeated their sterling performance of the year at Philadelphia, where they won the intercollegiate championship, entraining for home with four first places, three new records, attached to their belt...