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Page 313 - University and chairman of the "Committee of One Hundred" of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which has for a long time been carrying on propaganda for the increase of national health through the elimination of preventable diseases. This Committee of One Hundred is composed of physicians and men engaged in active sociological work in every part, of the country.
Page 42 - Jackson accepted an appointment as head of the department of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a position that he retained until his retirement in 1935.
Page 57 - The remark that I shall make on these cobweb-like appearances, called gossamer, is, that strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which swarm in the fields in fine weather in autumn, and have a power of shooting out webs from their tails, so as to render themselves buoyant and lighter than air.
Page 131 - STREAT to be members of the Advisory Council to the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research from October 1.
Page 52 - Law (BL) are conferred. The Faculty of Medicine has a full curriculum in Medicine and Surgery, and is equipped with very extensive Laboratories and all other necessary appliances for Practical Teaching. Ample facilities are afforded for Clinical Instruction at the Royal Infirmary. Maternity Hospital, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Hospital for Infectious Diseases, and Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental Disorders. Four Degrees in Medicine and Surgery are conferred by the University, viz.
Page 241 - ... tides? Do we not feel that he who is totally ignorant of these things, let him be ever so skilled in a special profession, is not an educated man, but an ignoramus ? It is surely no small part of education to put us in intelligent possession of the most important and most universally interesting facts of the universe, so that the world which surrounds us may not be a sealed book to us, uninteresting because unintelligible.
Page 52 - Four Degrees in Medicine and Surgery are conferred by the University, viz. : Bachelor of Medicine (MB), Bachelor of Surgery (Ch.B.), Doctor of Medicine (MD), and Master of Surgery (Ch.M.) : and these Degrees qualify for practice throughout His Majesty's dominions, and for admission to the Naval, Military, and other Public Medical Services in the United Kingdom. A Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene...
Page 27 - Out of print. No. 3. Bacteriological Studies in the Pathology and Preventive Control of Cerebro-spinal Fever among the Forces during 1915 and 1916. By MH Gordon, Martin Flack, PW Bassett-Smith, TGM Hine, and WJ Tulloch.
Page 106 - June, 1916, a new committee was formed to consider the position of the coal trade after the war, with especial reference to international competition and to report what measures, if any, are necessary to safeguard that position.
Page 241 - ... never met with anything at all like it. But a great debate in Parliament does bring home something of this feeling. Any notion, any creed, any feeling, any grievance which can get a decent number of English members to stand up for it, is felt by almost all Englishmen to be perhaps a false and pernicious opinion, but at any rate possible — an opinion within the intellectual sphere, an opinion to be reckoned with. And it is an immense achievement. Practical diplomatists say that a free government...