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The Student should be taught the essentials of the method for 

 determining antiseptic and disinfectant strength and it should be 

 impressed on him that the claims for a proprietary article should 

 never be seriously considered without verification by a competent 

 and unbiased investigator — one who knows the pitfalls to beavoided 

 in the making of the test, wherein one less skilled may fall. Many 

 a proprietary article on the market will be found to possess rela- 

 tively little power as a disinfectant, but may have the qualities of an 

 excellent antiseptic. Such a preparation may be very useful in its 

 proper field ; but reliance on it as a germicide would be disastrous. 



The award of the Nobel prize in chemistry to Mme. Curie is an 

 honor as signal as any ever conferred. It is a tribute to Mme. 

 Curie's scientific attainments that is shared generally by her sex 



and will advance woman's cause everywhere. 



Prof. and Mme. Curie shared in the prize for 

 physics in 1903 with Becquerel, the discoverer of the Becquerel 

 rays. It is most notable that anyone should win such fame in two 

 branches of science as to be awarded an important prize in each. 



If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has 



so much as to be out of danger? — Huxley. 



The successful worker must have the spirit of play in his heart, 



and the successful man is only a boy with a 

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man s expenence. — Hughes. 



What do the clinicians of to-day — even the most learned — know 

 of respiration? Next to nothing! And this little is mostly 

 wrong. — Henderson, 



I have learned three things in Paris: Not to take authority 

 when I can have facts, not to guess when I can know, and not to 

 think that a man must take physic because he is sick. — Holmes. 



I know nothing that is so conducive to a cheerful optimism in 

 these present days as the pursuit of science. The laboratory is the 

 habitation of buoyancy, enthusiasm and hope. Its occupant has no 

 moral right to be despondent, and, if he is so, there is surely some- 

 thing pathological in the activities of his brain-cells. Actually, how- 

 ever, one rarely meets with a pessimistic man of science. — Lee. 



