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...Gustav Eckstein wears his science with a difference. Associate professor of physiology at the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati, he specializes on the nervous system and, presumably, teaches his students what they ought to know about neurons and ganglia...
Little Ladders. Out of the professor's observations have come several books. The most successful of these was Canary (1936). The most recent is Everyday Miracle (Harper; $2.75), published last week. Dr. Eckstein's books have a peculiar flavor. The professor is no mere animal lover. He feeds his canaries lemon pie, provides little ladders for mice, and is sad when a favorite cockroach named He-Who-Leaps is eaten (he fears) by a favorite mouse named Patsy. But when he writes about them and their peculiarities, he is generally pointing out in a graceful way some mystery...
...tells about a tomcat, for instance, that goes to a bingo game at 7:45 every Monday evening. This reminds Eckstein that no one has found the mechanism which gives men (or animals) the ability to measure time. When he tells about the sleeping habits of his canaries (fagged-out females in the mating season sleep the soundest), he is reminded of another mystery: What is sleep...
Allen D. Sapp, Jr. 1G, the George Arthur Knight Prize for the best composition in instrumental music; Allen P. Sindler '48, the James Gordon Bennett Prize for his essay "Political Demagogy in the Lower South"; Harry H. Eckstein '46, the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize for an essay entitled "The Sociology of Politics: A Study of Max Weber's Political Thought...
Honorable mentions went to John W. McNulty '48, Warren W. Furth '49, Harry H. Eckstein '46, and Otto A. Friedrich...