Word: lillard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientist can look at a cat, but few have looked with the spectacular results described in Science last week by Drs. Sam Lillard Clark and James W. Ward of Vanderbilt University. Their look threw much needed light on the relations of the cat's hind brain to the rest of its body. The front part of the brain (cerebrum) governs intelligence and will power. The rear part (cerebellum) governs action. In that region of a cat's brain the experimenters drilled several small holes into which they screwed small steel tubes. This arrangement allowed them to touch...
...packing up to go home last month, a group at Tabor Academy was busy painting, rigging and bending on sails on a 90-ft. auxiliary schooner, the Tabor-Boy. Tabor is on Buzzards Bay, Mass., near an old whaling town. It was reorganized in 1916 by Headmaster Walter Huston Lillard. Dartmouth man and Oxonian who had been assistant to the headmaster of Andover since 1907. His 150 boys sail, row. cruise, hold cutter drills. Every spring they are taken on a cadet-training cruise to Central America. They may join a "Sea Scout" unit (nautical branch of the Boy Scouts...
Last week, having prettied up the trim Tabor-Boy, 18 Sea Scouts (none over 16 years) manned her for an eight-week cruise to the World's Fair. With Headmaster Lillard and Captain Lewis in command, the boys were assigned regular watches, holding all posts from able seaman up through bos'n and quartermaster to first mate. They sailed the Tabor-Boy down to New York, putt-putted up the Hudson to Albany where the 85-ft. masts were unstepped to clear the bridges along the canal to Buffalo and the Great Lakes. At ports of call along...