Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five members whose six-year terms expire this June are George Russell Agassiz '89, Allston Burr '89, Dwight Parker Robinson '90, Frederick Winsor '93, and William Phillips...
Last week respectable scientists of the Yale faculty announced completion of an electric machine which does very much what Abrams claimed for his condemned Oscilloclast. Professor Harold Saxton Burr, upright Yale neuroanatomist, learned son of a professor in the Y. M. C. A. at Springfield, Mass, calls the Yale machine "a vacuum tube microvolt-meter for the measurement of bioelectric phenomena." In the current Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine he and his colleagues give precise instructions for building the diagnostic machine and the principles on which it operates, something which Albert Abrams never provided for his device...
...machine measures electrical changes in the body as small as five one-millionths of a volt. By means of it Professor Burr and associates have been able to detect and record electrically the instant of ovulation in rabbits, cats and women, the development of chicks and salamanders in their eggs, differences between mice who are bound to develop cancer and mice who never will develop cancer, the first stirrings of cancer in mice long before the tumors are visible...
...possible extension of such detection to all human diseases set Professor Burr's imagination afire, impelled him to crow last week: "The technique should be a new and powerful weapon for the analysis of fundamental biological activity. . . . It seems well nigh unlimited in its application...
...Divinity School, Chairman; George G. Wilson, professor of International Law; George W. Chase, professor of Archaeology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Arlie V. Rock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene and Director of the Harvard Medical Service; Arthur S. Johnson '85, of Boston; Allston Burr '89, of Boston; John H. Lane '28, of Hollis, New York; Rolf Kaltenborn '37, of Brooklyn, New York, President of the Phillips Brooks House Association; John B. Bowditch '37, of Concord, secretary-treasurer of the Association, and Raymond Dennett 1G., of Williamstown, Graduate Secretary...