Show Typhoid Out of Place I r J Scarcely has the terrible outbreak oC typhoid which devastated Ithaca and I Cornell university abated when the news comes that the town of Palo Alto I Cal In which Stanford university is V situated Is struggling with an epidemic I V of the same malady One hundred cases have been reported the greater I part of them being students Fortunately I Fortu-nately the disease la of a mild t pct pc-t I What Is the matter with our universities I I universi-ties They are the seats of concentrated Intelligence they have costly laboratories labora-tories for testing and trying and proving prov-ing and disproving How could their chemistry and biology be of more value I val-ue than In testing at frequent intervals inter-vals a necessity of life to vital as the water their students drink Emerson defined dirt as matter out I of place A germ disease conveyed I I In drinking water Is surely out of place I In a modern university New York i World f t |