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...these cures because the patients reported and their physicians recognized the cancers before much destruction had occurred. This was the point which the surgeons wanted impressed on everyone. Dr. Robert Battey Greenough of Boston, who later in the week was elected 1934 president of the College, presided over the symposium on cancer, in which 30 eminent surgeons shared. One of the best attention-holders was Dr. Robert Calvin Coffey of Portland.* Ore., a swarthy, beetling man who was called upon to describe his famed system of draining the kidneys through the intestines in cases where the bladder is diseased...
...20th President of the U. S., Dr. Garfield practiced law in Cleveland, taught at Western Reserve and Princeton, became Williams' president in 1908. In 1917 Woodrow Wilson appointed him U. S. Fuel Administrator. Dr. Garfield is celebrated as earnest Dry and as founder of the Williamstown Institute, summer symposium of wise minds on world problems...
Life, declared Professor Willstätter at the Chicago symposium, is definitely a chemical process to which the pass key is the study of enzymes. Enzymes are catalytic substances produced by living cells. There are a multitude of them and each has an individual affinity for substances which it can either break down or synthesize...
...beginning its in Chicago. Many of the subjects discussed before both bodies were, identical, notably the surveys of vitamins, hormones and enzymes. At Leicester, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins devoted his B. A. A. S. presidential address to these vital entities. In Chicago they were the subject of a symposium in which A. C. S. President Arthur Becket Lamb partook, and at which foreign guests of the Society expounded-Munich's Dr. Richard Willstätter on enzymes, Zurich's Dr. Paul Karrer on vitamins, Edinburgh's Dr. George Barger on hormones...
...present issue of the Harkness Hoot features a symposium on social ideas and an article entitled "Von Papen on Hitlerism." The impact of the later diminishes when one learns that the man in question is not von Papen after all, but von Papen's son, a law student at the University of Berlin. Mr. von Papen writes in a rather naive and unconvincing fashion, and his statistical vagaries have been carefully corrected by the editors of the Harkness Hoot, all of which indicates that the Hoot has once more been mumbo-jumboed by the roll of a mighty name...