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...discovery of a hitherto unknown adrenalin-like hormone was announced yesterday at New Haven in a paper read before the Yale Medical Society by Dr. W. B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cannon who spoke on "The Explanation of a Mysterious Emotional Increase in the Heart Rate," revealed that a chemical substance, which he has named "sympathin" is given off by smooth muscle when stimulated by nerves attached to the spinal cord, over which the brain has no control, and affects the heart directly as does adrenalin. It has previously been supposed...
...HOUNDS RAN : Four Centuries of Foxhunting-Edited by A. Henry Higginson& #151;Huntington Press ($25).- Though it is usually better to give than to receive, even at Christmas, if you have the remotest interest in fox-hunting you can only be glad if some tycoonish friend bought and bestowed on you this book. Designed and printed by famed Typographer D. B. Updike, illustrated with old prints, engravings, modern drawings, with Forewords by Poet Laureate John Masefield, Edgar Astley Milne (the "sporting parson," co-Master of the Cattislock Hunt, Dorset, England), As Hounds Ran is as complete and readable an anthology...
...what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been hanged for murder and Sophocles for incest. Poetry is the spiritual enjoyment of what one understands. I wrote my tale of the Fox because I felt deeply the beauty and the life of hunting." Editor-Sportsman A. Henry Higginson, son of the late Tycoon Henry Lee Higginson (founder of Boston's famed Lee, Higginson & Co.) is a U. S. citizen and owns a large place in South Lincoln, Mass., but shares the Mastership of the Cattistock Hunt with Parson Milne. He is at present the only U. S. Master...
...five other members of the Nominating Committee are Richard Gardiner Edwards '31, of Swampscott; William Lawrence Breese '31, of Garrison, New York; Eliot Wylie '31, of Quincy; Victor Matthews Harding Jr. '31, of Hubbard Woods, Illinois; and Benjamin Higginson Bassett '31, of Chatham...
John Livingston Lowes, Higginson Professor of English at Harvard who is spending the current academic year at Oxford, has begun his series of lectures there, it was learned yesterday. Professor Lowes is lecturing at the English University as the first incumbent of the new George Eastman Visiting Professorship, established in 1928 by George Eastman of Rochester, New York...