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...most important news which the studious editor of the American Journal of Roentgenology, Dr. Lawrence Reynolds of Detroit, had to impart to his readers last week was that two English x-ray experts have completed the first x-ray studies of how long the healthy human stomach requires to digest various kinds of foodstuffs...
...radios in the U. S. If the Lord Mayor's prediction, of which they were entirely unaware, came true, it meant $143,000 to a Bronx housewife, a Philadelphia bartender who had signed his ticket "Five Glasses," the wife of a hotel proprietor of Olney, Ill., a Toronto x-ray technician and one Ann Goldberg of Philadelphia, as well as smaller prizes for hundreds of others whose names', addresses and reactions the U. S. Press was last week waiting eagerly to investigate...
Died. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 76, physicist, inventor, longtime (1901-31) professor of electromechanics at Columbia University, onetime Serbian shepherd boy; of uremic poisoning following anemia and influenza; in Manhattan. Chief inventions: an inductance coil for long distance telephones; X-ray technique which shortened the exposure time from an hour to a few seconds; a wireless tuning device to overcome interference; an electrolytic rectifier to handle high-frequency signals...
Your criticism of the Department of Hygiene is unjust, unfair and unwarranted. Stillman Infirmary is a clean, modern, well-equipped hospital. No facility exists which is not available to the sick student. Your condemnation of it is based solely on the triviality that the corridors leading to the X-ray room are drafty. But if you could see the care in keeping the building clean, airy, and pleasant, I believe you would overlook the fault...
...regards Stillman Infirmary, the conditions are equally appalling. The building and equipment are obsolete. The building is drafty. In periods of epidemics it is often overtaxed. A long ride through frigid corridors is necessary to reach the X-ray machine. The lack of proper shower and bathroom equipment is another source of annoyance to patients. Indifferent or incompetent supervision often results in students with contagious diseases being confined in wards with others who are susceptible to affliction...