Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVERETT VAN EVERY Berkeley, Calif...
...Board's earlier refusal to allow undergraduates on the side more than two days of excused class absences had dimmed prospects of the team's April tour to Berkeley. But Dean Watson informed club president Art Ticknor yesterday that the appeal for an extra day had been granted. The squad will now definitely play two games with the University of California next April...
...this point, our chances of making the trip look excellent," Arthur W. Ticknor '56, president of the Rugby Club, said last night. Current plans call for the ruggers to play two games in Berkeley on Friday and Sunday, April...
...dinner given by Britain's Royal College of Surgeons in London in 1927, the college's president, Sir Berkeley Moynihan, took aside France's Professor René Leriche to show him a unique and little-known specimen. It was a sealed glass tube containing a piece of small intestine with a hole in it. Surgeon Leriche made an on-the-spot diagnosis: perforation caused by a tropical disease. Confided Moynihan proudly: "It is Napoleon's intestine...
Last week in the French weekly Arts, Professor Leriche, now 76, reported that Sir Berkeley had said just enough to upset the generally accepted theory that Napoleon's death on St. Helena was caused by cancer. Did the British impose the cancer theory to conceal something? The magazine's sinister conclusion: Napoleon may have died of a tropical disease, brought on by his British jailers' refusal to supply him with adequate quarters and sufficient drainage. Napoleon's intestine cannot be produced to test the theory: it was destroyed by a German bomb...