Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first active steps towards the use of the Morris Gray Fund for Modern Poetry were outlined yesterday afternoon by Professor Winship in the Art Room of the Widener Library, in an informal talk. The gift by Morris Gray '77 of $30,000, the income from which was to be used for the purchase of contemporary poetry, was announced last month, and Professor Winship's speech yesterday was the first intimation of what general plan would be followed...
...Johnson also has had exciting times with these animals. She was photographing one once when it started to charge her. "I grabbed my title but my chance of escape was small. There are only three small spots on the elephant head where a bullet proves fatal. The guns we use make a 45 look like a toy, and yet an elephant can digest a good four shots from them. This time luck was with me; the animal crumpled and fell 15 feet in front...
...obvious solution for the private schools is to alow their students a great deal more freedom in alloting their time so that when they do find themselves in a position when they have more latitude they will know how to use...
...soon as two Chicago physicians proved that doctors have found little use for vaccines to cure disease, the open-minded American Medical Association hastened, last fortnight, to publish the facts. Vaccines immunize against specific infection. For several years doctors, further, have believed that diligent experiment would show them a vaccine, serum, or antitoxin * to cure any particular disease. Many an agent was tried, and many a disappointment ensued. In Chicago Dr. Ludvig Hektoen and Ernest E. Irons wondered at the extent to which U. S. physicians are now using vaccines to cure disease, as against preventing disease. Accordingly they sent...
...recent formal opening of the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, the use of which has been enjoyed by many students during the current year, brings to the general notice another splendid addition to the facilities of Harvard College. But there still remains much that can be done to increase the opportunities for scientific study. Chief among these would seem to be an extension of the time during which the college laboratories are open to undergraduates. The Widener Library is at the disposal of all members of the University for a much larger part of the day than are the laboratories in spite...