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...growing nervous system must solve, the most daunting is posed by the wiring itself. After birth, when the number of connections explodes, each of the brain's billions of neurons will forge links to thousands of others. First they must spin out a web of wirelike fibers known as axons (which transmit signals) and dendrites (which receive them). The objective is to form a synapse, the gap-like structure over which the axon of one neuron beams a signal to the dendrites of another. Before this can happen, axons and dendrites must almost touch. And while the short, bushy dendrites...
...Class of 1944: Richard Walton Allen Aspen, Gordon Mervin Browne, Jr., James Frank Dickason, Jr., and Robert Howard Weinstein. Cum Laude: John Thomas Axon and Myrton Freeman Beeler. Magna cum Laude: Henry Arthur Frey...
...door-to-door drive to collect old clothes for the needy will begin the end of this week and continue until the following Tuesday, under the guidance of Tom Axon '44 of Phillips Brooks House...
Earl Brown's basketball team, currently lounging in the Ivy League cellar, is casualty number two. Don Lutze, wizard defensive cager, will not be in College for the second semester, as he expects to be drafted very soon. Tom Axon, reserve forward, left during examination period for a meteorology school, and Dick Sorlien, another substitute...
...left the brunt of the attack on Dean Hennessey, who scored nine points. Other leading scorers for Harvard were Dick Forster with six points, Hugh Hyde, and Mike Fausler, who made five each. The Harvard summary: G F P Hennessey, lf 4 1 9 Bixler, lf 1 0 2 Axon, lf 0 1 1 Dillon, rf 0 0 0 Burditt, c 1 2 4 Forster, c 3 0 6 Hyde, lg 2 1 5 Keene, lg 1 0 2 Fansler, rg 2 1 5 Moley, rg 1 1 8 Totals...