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History, after annual increases reaching 287 Harvardmen last year, suffered a sharp drop of 19 students this fall. Philosophy likewise incurred a sudden decrease, losing 12 men after hovering around 50 for the three years previous, and the same phenomenon occurred in the field of Classics, which slipped by 10 from its usual level...
...meet us . . . your local constable might be helpful because several flips already consumed at this early hour. Prepare warming pans to get dampness out of beds. We bring our own night pails." A welcoming committee 100 strong went to the station to meet the delegation, but found only two Harvardmen, who were forthwith lifted off the train...
...Tillet is the victim (or, as a wrestler, the beneficiary) of pituitary overdevelopment, resulting in acromegaly-enlargement of the face and jaws. The Harvardmen X-rayed his head, found the sella turcica, which houses the pituitary, considerably enlarged. They measured the tremendous, coffin-shaped face, found it 7.16 inches wide, 7.05 inches long from nose-bridge to jaw-point. They also noted huge protuberances over the eyebrows and at the back of the head, an elevation like a ridgepole from front to back of the cranium...
...lenses from the graduating class. It is Charles Robert ("Colonel Charlie") Apted, Harvard's head "Yard cop." Charlie dearly loves to march in this parade: He also loves Harvard. Last week was one of mixed emotions for Charlie Apted. In Harvard's paneled old Memorial Hall 600 Harvardmen dined & wined him, the Harvard Glee Club sang Behold the Lord High Executioner and photographers' lenses blinked again & again as Colonel Apted announced that he would retire in July, after 38 years as a campus character...
...Africa, of two new, far-off super-galaxies, each of which is about 1,000,000 light-years in diameter (one light-year equals approximately six trillion miles). Another discovery, nearer home, concerned the Cepheid variables-a class of stars, mostly yellow supergiants, which fluctuate regularly in brightness. The Harvardmen noticed that in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way, the bigger Cepheids were mostly concentrated toward the centre of the galaxy. This may mean that they were brought there by the operation of galactic gravity over a long time, or that when the stars originally...