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were relieved from membership dues in several biological societies to 

 which I belong. There would, I am sure, be somewhere between 

 fifteen and twenty Journals that would have to be included in our com- 

 plete list. 



I wish you would regard me as an enthusiastic supporter of the idea 

 and one who is willing to further it. 



Woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink 



Antigens together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free. — 



Tennyson. 



In healing men, as in other lines o£ industry, the first requisite 



is to know hovv. To know how is the essence of science. — Jordan. 



The great object in trying to understand history — political, re- 



ligious, literary or scientific — is to get behind men and to grasp 



ideas. — Acton. 



The only important difference between the practical doctor and 

 the scientific doctor is that the patients of the practical doctor are 

 more likely to die. — Minot. 



The most urgent problems of medical education to-day relate to 

 the teaching of the clinical subjects. It is the so-called theoretical 

 or laboratory subjects which are now taught most practically, whereas 

 the practical branches are taught most theoretically. — Welch. 



It is the little fellow who struts, the minor actor who is worried 

 about the spot light, the man of small caliber who demands the chief 

 place at the feast. The gang foreman walks with an air; the Super- 

 intendent of the plant is too busy to give thought to the appearance 

 that he is making. — C. H. Esty. 



The pursuit of fame is purely a gambling enterprise. If any 

 one has a mind to be famous, by all means let him " go to it " — ^this 

 is a free country ; but he ought clearly to keep in view the f act that 

 he is not engaged in legitimate or honest work but in an affair that 

 is wholly luck — as much so as if he were pursuing fortune at the 

 gaming tables of French Lick or Monte Carlo. There are no known 

 laws for becoming noted, even after the human race has been ex- 

 perimenting for generation after generation. If your card tums 

 up you win ; if the little ball stops on your number, you are it. That's 

 all. — Crane. 



