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In celebration of Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon's twenty-five years as George Higginson professor of physiology in Harvard University, the afternoon and evening have been set aside for exercises befitting the occasion, at the Amphitheater, Building C, Harvard Medical School, at 4 o'clock with Dr. David L. Edsall presiding. Papers will be given by Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, of the Mayo Clinic, on "Influence of Dr. Cannon's Work upon Medical Thought and Progress" and by Dr. William H. Howell, of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene, on "The Development of Physiology during the Past Twenty-five Years, and Dr. Cannon's Influence upon it."
At 7.30 o'clock a dinner will be given at the Vanderbilt Hall Gymnasium, at which President Lowell will preside, Dr. Graham Lusk, professor of physiology of the School of Medicine of Cornell University, will speak on "The Life of a Professor." The presentation to the medical school of the portrait of Dr. Cannon will then take place. Members of the committee in charge are: Dr. Henry A. Christian, chairnfan, Dr. Harvey Cushing. Dr. Alexander Forbes, Dr. Alfred C. Redfield and Dr. Cecil K. Drinker.
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