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...good chess player makes the smallest move count. Last week Pope Pius XII chose the seventh anniversary of his coronation to throw a well-timed spotlight on an important new red hat. The hat belongs to soft-voiced, fierce-bearded Gregory Peter XV Agagianian (pronounced ah-gah-jahn-yan), Patriarch-Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians, who stayed over in Rome at the Pope's request to celebrate Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Sistine Chapel...
Modern apparatus gymnastics was founded in the early 19th Century by Germany's Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. To this day the world's gymnasts follow the etiquette as well as the exercises established on his Turnplatz. They approach their specialties with exaggerated posturings and goose-step tread, perform with Teutonic precision. Besides the apparatus events (horizontal bar, parallel bars, side horse, long horse, flying rings and balance beam), championship tournaments include rope-climbing, Indian clubs, calisthenics, tumbling...
...species of plants, one of these animals-Euglena rubra by name-changes its color, now red, now green, to control the amount of light it uses. This phenomenon was explained last week in Physiological Zoology by Leland P. Johnson of Drake University and Theodore Louis Jahn of the University of Iowa...
Zoologists Johnson and Jahn studied these microscopic protozoa in Iowa ponds for five summers, found they were reddest when the temperature was a sunny 90° or more. Taken to a dark laboratory, the animals turned green, then turned red again not only on exposure to light but to heat. Reason: migration of a red pigment between the animal's interior and its surfaces. Its purpose: to protect the chlorophyll granules from an overload of light, which would destroy the pigment. Besides making food like plants, Euglenae also can eat like animals...
Added interest in the Leverett House Dance this Friday night is supplied by the announcement made yesterday by Harold E. Jahn '36, chairman of the dance committee, that a wandering minstrel will be present at dinner before the dance to play request numbers...