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...significant change in personnel was evident Monday as the Crimson went through a 50-minute workout in sweat clothes, then retired to Lamont for a scouting report on Saturday's game with Columbia...
...heart in small things. For instance, there are many, many tidbits of practical knowledge that we did not possess three years ago. We now know that: it is not essential to spend half the day hating the HSA; there is never any reason in the world to go into Lamont Library; it doesn't make any difference which, Harvard House gives us shelter; it is not important which faction won at the SDS national convention; it does nothing for us to know that being a senior means easy admittance to some courses...
...more ingenious experiments in aquaculture has just begun on the Caribbean island of St. Croix. Conceived by scientists of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, it is based on a natural sea phenomenon. In areas of the world where the right combination of wind, current and slope of the continental shelf occurs, cold water from the ocean depths sometimes churns up to the surface. Laden with nutrients from decomposed sea life that has settled to the ocean deeps, these rising currents possess extraordinary fertilizing power. Once they reach the upper level of the ocean, where sunlight penetrates, they...
...Lamont Library closed early...
Investigating the puzzle, two scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory checked what they drily called "much earlier speculations concerning the nature of the moon." Geophysicists Edward Schreiber and Orson L. Anderson carefully compared the sound-conducting properties of two lunar rocks with those of a wide assortment of cheeses. The result: Wisconsin muenster conveyed sound slightly faster than one moon rock; Norwegian goat cheese responded almost precisely like the other rock...