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Former Crimson basketball player, David, F. Egan '23, sports writer for a Boston newspaper, yesterday reasserted charges that "Harvard thinks like a fossil where athletics are concerned...
Gulf are not very different from their fossil ancestors. Each species has its preference for sand, mud or shell bottom. If scientific frogmen learn enough about the modern sea creatures, they may be able to use their forebears in the deep rocks to point where a reef or sand bar (now saturated with oil) lies hidden not far away...
...geologists have learned to use bacteria as an aid to exploration, e.g., certain important layers of rock can be identified by the fossil microorganisms imbedded in the strata. Some of these are remains of bacteria that lived freakishly on iron or sulphur compounds; others, still living, get along on petroleum itself. Most common soils contain bacteria that can "eat" hydrocarbons; if oil is spilled on the soil, they multiply enthusiastically, and soon the oil disappears...
...Bulletin cover twice: once on December 22, 1933 ("The Apes in Animal Sociology"), and again on May 27, 1938 ("The Living Asiatic Apes"). In addition, other esoteric cover articles of the Merrill period featured "The Harvard Observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa," "'Malaysia.' Its Governments and Physical Beauty," "Collecting Fossil Insects," and "A Way to Control the Gypsy Moth...
...remarkable thing about them is their enormous age. The iron ore above the flint bed has been dated by Professor Patrick Hurley of M.I.T., who estimates that it is 1.3 billion years old. Since the fossil algae and fungi lie far below it, they are probably something like 2 billion years...