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...essays, however, are in themselves wonderful, thoughtful examples of young critical thinking at its best. Paul De Man (since lost to Cornell) contributes an essay on Wordsworth and Yeats; he is probably the most rigorous "close reader" of the bunch, and his essay successfully solves the problem which trips up many of his co-authors, making the careful analysis of particular poems yield insights into the writers' general concerns and methods. William Taylor (on his way to Wisconsin), who has the unenviable task of making Parkman's De Salle interesting, also succeeds where others fail, by skillfully combining description...
...experienced jumpers seem to be the only bunch of guys who assume the by-products of the "crisis", and concentrate on the various skills such as free-fall position (before the parachute opens) and landing on target. For this reason, they seem to be the only people who see it as a sport...
Faint Current. Republic's tiny protons, which are the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, act exactly like small bar magnets. When they are placed in a magnetic field, they tend to line up like a bunch of compass needles. If the magnetic field changes direction, it tries to pull the protons around with it. But protons have a mysterious property called "spin" that makes them react like small spinning wheels. When the magnetic field changes direction, they do not follow obediently. Instead, they resist the turning motion, just as if they were gyro wheels...
...Nakayama tried taking carotid bodies from his patients. They needed only a local anesthetic, though to get at the glomus, he had to sever one of the thyroid arteries. He cut the carotid body's own little artery, snipped the stalk by which it is attached (actually a bunch of nerves), and removed it. In seven years of wholesale surgery, Dr. Nakayama operated on almost 4,000 asthmatics, now reports that 81% had good results for at least six months, 58% for five years, while 16% have had no more attacks at all. Several Japanese surgeons have studied...
...anti-jockism at Harvard bad as anti-intellectualism; type of personality under exists per se at Harvard, and no reason why a varsity dispel the erroneous triad types by joining a final club A's. To those who ask " hell are you doing down at muddy field with a bunch animals when you could be your knowledge by reading ?" the athlete can reply " a college experience" much validity and pride as a of the CRIMSON, Glee Club, Council, or any group...