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...more of these, and each affected cell stimulates ten of its neighbors (by this theory). Each of these ten stimulates a neighboring ten, and so on by geometrical proportion, until the influence of the original stimulus fades away. Such stimuli are normally brought to these cells in the grey cortex (bark) by the nerve fibres. These form the white core of the brain. (Naturally there are blood vessels and a variety of other cells in the brain as elsewhere in the human economy...
Sensations, messages from the outer world, are carried by afferent nerves to definite lobes and to definite locations in these lobes. There the grey cells in the cortex mull the influences of these stimuli, play with them, sometimes bury them as memories. If a physical reaction is wanted, consciously or subconsciously, the brain sends out its will by way of efferent nerves to the organs of expression, to the limbs, the viscera, the tongue, the hand...
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...
...Charles Cortex Abbott '28, of Cambridge; John Egger Barnett '28, of Clinton, Mo.; Henry Wilkinson Bragdon '28, of Rochester, N. Y.; and Kendall Foss '27, of New York City...
...England is getting back to the two party system", said Professor Wilbur Cortex Abbott, Professor of History in the University, in commenting on the decisive defeat of the Labor party at the polls which was announced yesterday. "The English are beginning to realize that a system of party government based on class distinctions cannot be really representative of public opinion...