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...Marine Corps decided to have the rifle matter out once and for all. A board was appointed to test the bolt-action Springfield and three semi-automatic rifles (Garand, Winchester, Johnson). The board included such acknowledged experts as Lieut. Colonel William W. Ashurst, a crack rifleman, and Lieut. Colonel Merritt A. Edson, who had earned Marine Corps fame in Nicaragua, hunting down Sandinistas. The Winchester, barely out of the laboratory, was never in the running. The much-publicized Johnson did better than the Winchester, did not equal the Garand in overall performance...
...mounted flower specimens from all over the world were added to the Gray Herbarium last year, bringing the university's great study collection of flowering plants and ferns to a total of 1,067,576 sheets of specimens, it was announced last week in the annual report of Merritt L. Fernald, Fisher Professor of Natural History and director of the institution...
...special collections which will be housed in the new library are those of Charles Eliot Norton; Charles Sumner and Harold Murdock, father of Professor Kenneth Murdock, Leverett House master; and the gifts of Thomas Carlyle, James Byrne, Mrs. Brandegee, Herbert Weir Smythe, John Stetson, George Herbert Palmer, Edward Percival Merritt, the Gay and William A. White families, and many other donors...
...kindergarten child. His mental age, Dr. Fabing found, was just where it was when he left school: six years. Dr. Fabing tried giving Eugene daily doses of seven-and-a-half-grain tablets of dilantin sodium, a new treatment for epilepsy developed two years ago by Drs. Hiram Houston Merritt of Harvard and Tracy Putnam, head of Manhattan's Neurological Institute. Within three days, Eugene's fits stopped...
...committee sponsoring the meeting are Sidney Guberman '42, who will preside at the meeting. Merritt Saldinger '42, Orville F. Poland '42, Thomas J. O'Toole '42, and Arnold W. Pekowsky...