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...addition to submitting a thesis, an honors candidate must take eight courses in the field. Of these, six must be Anthropology and two related. Non-honors concentrators are required to take at least four Anthropology and two related courser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anthropology | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

...hedges and ditches interposed along the course by Britain, they compete for the No. 1 position. Sometimes this competition is so bitter that they lose sight of the finish and run off the course. Most remarkable single fact about this strange race: when the running gets hottest, the leading courser is almost invariably mounted by a tiny, leathery, ascetic man in a white cotton loincloth. Last week the leaders were bunched at an important hurdle, and once again the first over was Mohandas K. Gandhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Gandhi Foregoes Independence | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

When people heard that "Oh, Dear," slim-legged courser of the Prince of Wales, had died of heart failure while making a jump (see COMMONWEALTH), they realized with vicarious contrition that a horse has a heart that may burst. "Oh, Dear" undoubtedly had a weak heart, although heart disease is fairly uncommon among horses. Their circulatory system is quite comparable to that of humans. Thus the horse has a heart with four chambers (two ventricles and two auricles) arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, veins and the appropriate valves. The blood is normally so pure that biological chemists use it in preparing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Horse's Heart | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...hits to the visitors 7, and it was mainly because of this that they won out. The batting orders: FRESHMEN. HAVERHILL. Alsop, l.f. 3b., Newbegin deWindt, 2b. p., Byard Gannett, r.f. c.f., Child Hardwick, c.f. l.f., McKay Ayres, 1b. s.s., Fishburn Bernson, West, s.s. c., Sanborn Brickley, c. r.f., Courser Phillips, 3b. 1b., Read Wright, Watson, Frye, p. 2b., MacGregor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN WON IN BASEBALL | 5/16/1912 | See Source »

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