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learn that counts. And perhaps the hest thing 

 to he said about the new School for Health 

 Officers is that it is a combination of schools 

 which have been noted for efficient instruc- 

 tion and for the hard work done by the stu- 

 dents. The Harvard motto " Veritas " is 

 combined with the Institute motto " Mens et 

 manus " — mind and hand working together 

 for the truth, or truth expressing itself 

 through mind and hand. We believe that the 

 spirit which has created these two institutions 

 will not fail to build up a school of public 

 health which will faithfully serve its day and 

 generation. 



But lest I be accused of screwing the nut 

 too tightly upon Boston as the hub of the 

 Universe let me say that we who shelter our- 

 selves beneath the fins of the codfish do not 

 claim to have a monopoly of the sea. What 

 has most impressed us in making our plans 

 has been not the magnificence of our Boston 

 institutions, but the magnitude of the prob- 

 lem which the country has to solve — the prob- 

 lem of ministering to the health of a hundred 

 million people gathered from all the quarters 

 of the globe. 



In conclusion, let me restate the ideal for 

 which the School for Health Officers of Har- 

 vard University and the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology stands — ^for a body of edu- 

 cated sanitarians working in many fields and 

 well-trained for their particular work — but 

 especially for the health officer whose educa- 

 tion is based on all four of the great profes- 

 sions — medicine, engineering, law and social 

 service. And it calls to the states and cities 

 and towns of the country and says, " This is 

 the kind of a man you need to protect your 

 public health, a man broadly trained and well- 

 paid who can afford to give all his time and 

 all of the best that is in him to the work." It 

 'calls to the legislators and says, " Amend your 

 ' laws so that you cam get this kind of men." 

 It calls to the young men of the country and 

 says, " The field is ripe for the harvest." And 

 it calls to the other imiversities and says, 

 " Join us in this great movement to secure 

 men for the public health service." Let us all 



work together for the health of the country 

 and the health of the world. 



George C. Whipple 

 Haevard Univeksitt 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Among the thirty-seven honorary degrees 

 conferred on the occasion of the one hundred 

 and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of 

 Brown University were two doctorates of sci- 

 ence, given to Dr. Simon Flexner, director of 

 the laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research, and Dr. L. A. Bauer, di- 

 rector of the department of terrestrial miagnet- 

 ism of the Carnegie Institution. 



At the celebration of the twenty-fifth anni- 

 versary of the Johns Hopkins Hospital a por- 

 trait of Sir William Osier, by Mr. Sargeant, 

 was presented. 



Mr. Douglas W. Freshfield, known for his 

 publications on mountains and other subjects, 

 has been elected president of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society. 



Professors Roentgen, Lenard and Behring 

 have each recently been reported to have re- 

 pudiated the gold medals conferred on them by 

 scientific associations in Great Britain, and 

 have donated them to the Red Cross or other 

 relief work, and now it is said that the Han- 

 bury medal has likewise been donated for relief 

 work by its recipient. Dr. E. Schmidt, pro- 

 fessor of pharmacology at Marburg. 



Dr. George H. Whipple, a graduate in 1900 

 of Tale and M.D. in 1905 of Johns Hopkins, 

 and since 1906 a member of the faculty of the 

 department of pathology of Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School, has taken up his new duties as 

 director of the George Williams Hooper 

 Foundation for Medical Research, to endow 

 which Mrs. Sophronia T. Hooper of San Fran- 

 cisco recently gave to the University of Cali- 

 fornia property valued at much more than a 

 million dollars. Three other appointments 

 have been made to the foundation. Dr. Karl 

 Friedrich Meyer and Dr. Ernest Linwood are 

 to become associate professors of tropical medi- 

 cine, and Dr. Charles W. Hooper is to be 

 fellow in research medicine. The head- 



