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...recent years, colleges across the country have begun working to challenge that longstanding tradition, revamping dining-hall menus and introducing classes on weight loss to combat unnecessary frosh noshing. At UC Santa Barbara, for instance, biology professor Diane Eardley introduced a freshman seminar called You Are What You Eat after observing what she calls a "second-year metamorphosis" among students. "The girls would come in gorgeous and come back 30 pounds heavier," explains Eardley, whose course is fully enrolled, with 10 students on the waiting list...
Inspired by wild discrepancies in reports of earlier UFO sightings, Science Students Terry Warren, James Gould and Douglas Eardley decided to perform a complex "gullibility experiment." Working secretly in a steam tunnel under the Caltech campus, they rigged balloons out of polyethylene sheeting and filled them with an inert gas-probably helium. From the bottom of the balloons they suspended metal rods, each with fins and a railroad flare fastened to its lower...
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...those odd days queernesses grew naturally on people, like bumps on logs. Nobody thought it wonderful that Mr. Eardley, the dairyman around the corner, was like the rest of his family, the color of milk, or that the local barber should bear the name Cutbeard. Small Compton Mackenzie thought it only natural that Dr. Arden, who lived at No. 1, should, with his lanky frame and short frock coat, incarnate the figure 1. Mr. Lockett, living at No. 3, had carroty curls that puffed out beneath his curly-brimmed silk hat "in a very three-like way." And who should...
...CANADA.Perram (captain), of Toronto; Geddes and Lampier, of London; Eardley-Wilmot, Jarvis, Robertson, and Lewby, of Ottawa; Taylor, Scriver, and Abbott, of McGill College; Gough and Molsom, of Montreal; Irwin and Blaiklock, of the Britannia Club...