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Professor James Bertram Collip, 39, biochemist, co-developer of insulin, more recently isolator of emmenin, one of the sex hormones beneficial in treating female disorders...
...riot started with the removal of a large bell-clapper, similar to that taken from Memorial Hall 11 days ago, from Bertram Hall, a Radcliffe dormitory, in the early part of the evening by a large group of students, consisting mostly of Freshmen. With cries of "We want our bell-clapper and we want beer!" and "Apted for President" the rioting students broke into the Radcliffe dormitories and rushed through the halls in search of the missing clapper. The only thing which could be found was a bell-clapper in Bertram Hall, and this was speedily removed and carried...
...Bertram Thomas O. B. E. (Mil) will speak at a meeting of the Harvard Travelers' Club tonight at 8.30 o'clock instead of 8 o'clock, as announced yesterday. The meeting will be held in the Geographical Building where Thomas will address the group on "Crossing the Rub Al Khall, or 'Empty Quarter,' of Africa...
...Crossing the Rub' Al Khali, or 'Empty Quarter,' of Arabia" will be the subject of a lecture by Bertram Thomas O. B. E. (Mil) at a meeting of the Harvard Travelers' Club in the Geography Building at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Mr. Thomas is the author of a recent book on the same subject, and of an older work, "Arabia Felix...
ARABIA FELIX - Bertram Thomas - Scribner ($5). Last large geographical blind spot in world cartographers' eyes was the great desert Rub' al Khali, "empty quarter" of Arabia. After skirting its southern fringe for more than two months, on Jan. 10, 1931, Explorer Thomas and 13 Arabs made tracks across; on Feb. 4 they emerged at Doha, on the Persian Gulf. The journey emptied geography of ignorance, emptied also any hopes of discovering a better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among...