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...Freshman program of fencing, tumbling and apparatus, and swimming both for beginners and advanced students will also commence Monday, Mr. Fradd announced. The various hours of the classes will be posted as soon as the officials have had time to sort the large list of Yardlings who have signified their attention of joining one or more groups. Freshmen who have signed for tennis will be required to join one of those groups on rainy days...
David Hyde, instructor in Physical Education and former star apparatus man of the Springfield College Gymnasium team, will direct the Indoor Athletic Building class, while Harvard Cox, connected with the football coaching staff, will be in charge of Hemenway...
...Paris Exposition last week the pavilion of the League of Nations collapsed of its own weight, but in Geneva the apparatus of the League worked hard and Democracy, personified by Britain and France, cut an impressive figure...
Pirates Won't Play? This move smacked of Mr. Chamberlain rather than of Mr. Eden. It amounted to scuttling almost the whole apparatus of Non- Intervention set up and maintained because Britain and France have insisted that this offered the best means of confining the war to Spain and minimizing its horrors (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936 et seq.). In newsorgans throughout the world the fact that Non-Intervention was being scuttled passed almost unnoticed amid the blaze of headlines about preparing to hunt pirates. Supposing, however, that the pirates should now simply decide not to play pirate any more...
Heavyweight Detectives. Deuterium occurs in nature to the extent of one atom among 4,500 atoms of ordinary hydrogen. With modern apparatus if deuterium is present in quantities much greater than this proportion it can be detected. Thus if a man weighing 160 lb. drinks 20 drops of heavy water, the excess of deuterium will show in his urine. Biologists have been quick to see that, with two kinds of hydrogen atoms as distinct as red and green, a neat method was available for tracing the course of hydrogen-bearing compounds in body processes. Scientists in Germany have already found...