Abstract

Editorial Paragraphs

Mentioned here is editorial's paragraph shedding light on social and political developments. The University of Pittsburgh has discharged Ralph E. Turner, for nine years professor of history, and the ensuing reverberations are likely to shake the very foundations of the "Cathedral of Learning." Turner was formerly chairman of the Pennsylvania Security League, which militantly seeks social and economic reform through legislation, and makes no bones about its hatred of the Mellon-Grundy-Vare combine which once held Pennsylvania in its back pocket. The Faculty of Harvard University has decided that the patenting of discoveries or inventions bearing on matters of health and therapeutics is undesirable and hereafter the scientists in Harvard laboratories will not be permitted to take out such patents.