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...apathy by their students. Professor Franklin Henry Giddings of Columbia belongs in both classes and in neither. Last week, in one of his Friday lectures, Professor Giddings told his listeners that he was retiring from the teaching staff of which he has been a member for 37 years; that thenceforth he would devote himself to research. At this, many of the 60 students who had come to the lecture were seen...
...Washington last week, President C. Zabel Robinson of the U. S. College of Veterinary Surgeons sadly passed out diplomas to the four members of the graduating class; with a sigh, announced that the college, founded 35 years ago, was thenceforth discontinued. Few men care to become horse doctors...
...sewage; and sewage reminded him of how the city of Carlisle was deodorizing its wastes-by carbolic acid. He slopped carbolic acid on the open wounds of accident cases brought to him. The acid worked; it prevented development of horrid "hospital gangrene." Joseph Lister had discovered antisepsis and thenceforth surgery became cleanly. Surgeons now wash their hands before operating; and they wear sterilized gloves, caps and aprons, and even tie gauze masks over their mouths to prevent foul breath contaminating the entrails of patients. Many surgeons realize the "why" of their precautions; most take their procedure for granted. Lister...
...hundred Detroit grocers, butchers, shoe store keepers and retail sellers of this-and-that railed at Henry Ford last week because his commissary stores were selling commodities to the general public - their customers. Mr. Ford's storekeepers (who sold $12,000,000 worth of goods last year) promised thenceforth to sell only to Ford employes, never to their neighbors...
...while he was studying at Iowa State College that William Hornaday, a vigorous, tar-haired Hoosier, came upon the works of Naturalist John J. Audubon and determined thenceforth to devote himself, not to natural history in a scientist's closet, but to discovering and teaching popularly the wonders of the animal kingdom. He studied zoology and the keeping of museums in Europe. He obtained a post as taxidermist at the U. S. National Museum in Washington. In 1886 it suddenly drawned on him that the buffalo-hide hunters had nearly completed their task of exterminating the once-thunderous bison herds...