Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual convention at the Copley Theatre yesterday afternoon and for the price of admission the literate public can enjoy a return engagement of the Society on Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Frances A. F. Saltonstall has written a play with a Boston accent on the cerebrations of the human brain and the success of mental telepathy and has titled it, "As He Thinketh...
...delightfully humorous article entitled "The Divine Right of the Alumni", appearing in the current Independent, Mr. Frederick L. Allen '12 pictures a loyal alumnus cherishing a fond affection for an alma mater he no longer understands and blundering incompetently about without exercising "a cubic millimeter of his brain." There are many men who help to create alumni opinion in just the manner Mr. Allen describes, though such a portrait is more caricature than a likeness. Amusing as the picture is, there is always a basis of truth in satire; and undergraduates who later will swell the great body of alumni...
...there no cure for epilepsy?" many have asked. No, none. Yet in Moscow last week a truly well-known physiologist, Professor Pavlof, froze part of a dog's brain. The dog developed epilepsy. In its veins Pavlof found a toxin which he believes to be the specific cause of the epileptic condition. He immunized a healthy beast by injecting it with the toxin. "If this works with humans," his assistant Dr. Speranski, told a concourse of physicians at Leningrad, "Pavlof has a cure for epilepsy...
Last week Dr. C. Judson Herrick, University of Chicago neurologist, issued statements anent the brain. There are 9,200,000,000 cells in the human cortex. In the process of thought one of these cells combines with ten others, and so on through a possibility of combinations expressed mathematically as 10 to the 300,000th power...
...feet and big ears indicate an amiable temperament and have some mysterious connection with the brain...