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...campus organizations and activities fall under the jurisdiction of the Cambrian Club, Brown's student council. Originally, the Cam Club was a social group which met for weekly lobster dinners--it derives its name from the Latin word lobster. It has the power to revoke the charters of any student club or publication, and it appoints the members of the student court...
MacVicar put his theory to the test, using the Amherst chemistry lab's electric furnace. On the second try, he succeeded. Impressed, Geology Professor George W. Bain handed MacVicar his favorite specimen, a chunk of pre-Cambrian limestone from the great Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, world's largest supply of uranium. After slowly heating the stone to 1,800° C. and letting it cool slowly, MacVicar painstakingly brushed away the powdered lime and uncovered the fragile, microscopic remains of a billion-year-old sponge. Dr. Bain described it as "among the oldest [fossils] yet discovered...
Besides listening to these and many other papers, the Academy presented an award in absentia to Dr. Alexander G. Vologdin of the U.S.S.R. for work on Pre-Cambrian algae. Dr. Vologdin, who wrote that he could not come to receive the award, explained that he had "a bronchial ailment...
...recent years, the Russians have begun to extract oil from Cambrian rock, imbedded in thousands of square miles of Siberia. They also have regular oil wells in the Urals and east of the Volga. From these sources, Russia, according to Hindus, got 5,500,000 tons of oil in 1938-more than Germany is getting from all its synthetic plants...
...story of the rise and fall of the Trilobites is made more poignant when it is considered that in Cambrian time they were the most intelligent and promising. Probably insects arose from the earliest Trilobites. I mention this to relieve the gloom of the rise and fall of this group of animals...