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...rays that are caustic to all tissue from reaching the area to be treated. It is believed that the gamma rays are the efficient agents in the treating of cancer by radium. By cutting off the beta rays by insulation, a greater concentration of gamma rays than hitherto could be safely used, may be applied without harmful or painful effect. The treatment consists of irradiation applied externally. After a time an operation is undertaken to remove some of the cancerous tissue, and little sealed gold tubes containing radon (the gas given off by radium) are inserted in the affected tissue...
Tracks of what may prove to be a hitherto undiscovered form of dinosaur have been found by two University students in the Connecticut River Valley, source of many former prehistoric discoveries...
...taken for what is technically known to the habitues of the race track as a ride last week. My record as a seer, hitherto 100 per cent perfect, was dealt a crushing blow 'When the last tick of the telegraph told me that Pennsylvania had beaten Yale, I, though I am a real man's man, sat down and wept like a child. For I, the ne plus ultra forecaster (pretty erudite, that) had missed. I had broken faith with my public. Such are life's tragedies...
Last year in Arizona, a scientific expedition found some remarkable rock pictures, supposedly made by prehistoric man. The most interesting picture, scientifically, is one that resembles an ibex, an antelope like creature which hitherto has not been found in this country, even in fossil form...
...third change to be effected under the new plan, will divide the meetings this year between the three Freshman dormitories, Smith Gore and Standish. Hitherto all the Freshman Monday nights have been held in the Smith Halls Common Room...