Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-07-18
or. 0SLER is SIXTY
AND NE WANTS 10 1--we
ORIGINATOR OF the Famous Chioroform
Theory is About to Engage IN
Contest.

DIR. William Osl"r. Physician. sci"n-
list. and the man 10 whom more or
less enormously has bee II imputed the
celebrated "OSicr aSriimit theory.
entered upon his siXIie'h y"ar-th"
limit according to th' theory. yest"f-
day. says The Washington Herald, to-
day.
IL was back in 1905, in an address
at Johns Hopkins University, That Dr.
OSler said the things tha;-wrll. what
he said was that mans best nS'lhl'
ness Is past at forty: that !ncnlcnit
Bile benz fit would accrue to the hui
man race If men would stop work IN
political. commercial. and profession.
al life ut sixty. Then he humorously
referred to the chloroforming plan
proposed in Anthony Troilope's novel,
TIL Fixed Period
It was thus ne hccam" the unwilling
father of what WIS called the "O%iti
theory" of putting men into lt'
sleep at thrccScOre.
Did h. call yesterday for th" chioro-
form bottle. and give his instructions
as to the kind Of epitaph he wanted
Nc, not he. He called for chil"e
anu itfHsii h''I h"' IL ''''' *
day. and read all the politics in the
morning papcrS Thou he dressed
himself for churt n. and went to the
house of worship sop foot.
Now. it appears that DIR. OSl"r IS
about TO enter Il contest with winston
Churchill and George WYndham. tof-
mcr chief secretary for ireland, lor
the lord rectOrship Of the university
of Edinburgh. The rae" is srh'dniea
for next November, and t is unh +
stood DIR. Oslcr is TO begin training
at once.
Since the contestants are not toI
carry weight for age. DIR. Osier IL De-
licvcd to have Il fine chance TO d'i''a'
the others. In any event. he IS Sn'd
to have announced that il he is 4 hos
or. he will not permit his defeat toI
dampen his ardor for other work
The entrance of Or. Osler upon MS
sjxtieth year of life calls attention 10
the fact that Their" are many men VINO
since 1906. when his chlCrOform tho
orv was promu!eated. have disfin-
ruishcd themselves beyond the age OF
threescore. Among them are:
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans. VINO
nj the age of sixty-one. in the fan
1907 took the American lattleship
feet from the Atlantic 10 tbs Pac'hc
on schedule time. without injury 10
single vessel.
J. p. Morgan. who. when over sew
enty. nv sitting up days and nights.
STAYED the financial panic in the ran
of 1907. To do this Mr.. Morgan. he'e
sometimes three of four conferences
in nc MANY nights
Justice David. !. Brewer. OF the
United States Supreme Court, VINO o1
his speeches throughout the country
when seventy wears of aen. did mncn
TO thwart the third-term movement ior
Roosevelt
John d. Rockefeller. who. when SIX
tv seven. laid out his $4,000. 900 gen
eral education board scheme OF COZ
lcge Cndowments.
Henry NJ. Fiaeler. vice-pre sident ~
the Standard Oil ComDany. who: al
the age of scvcnty-eisht, carried to
his marvellous engineering
scheme of uniting the myriadS CT ~
lands on the Florida Keys with ran
road an extension Of his Fast COAST
system. and continued nninterrn"'
10 nuti, last rnrth his active controi
of the Standard OH Company, the
q. st and most cOmplIca' private o's
ircss enterprise in the worid.-New
York Tribuna.