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Strictly for classicists is the Pierian Sodality of 1808, oldest musical organization in the land. About 60 members of the Harvard and Radcliffe orchestras form the skilled nucleus of both organizations, and spend their time boosting the orchestra's prestige by playing at local schools and clubs...
...better are the "cultural possibilities of Poughkeepsie" than Boston, she continued, where Vassar has a thriving nucleus of male veteran students...
...What we started to do," said Dr. Spiegelman, "was to find out how genes operate." Genes are infinitesimal bodies (perhaps single protein molecules) in the nucleus of every living cell, from bacteria to man. According to orthodox, "Mendelian" biology, they are the sole arbiters of heredity. When a cell divides, each gene divides too, and transmits a definite characteristic to the "daughter" cells...
...Self-Duplicating Bodies." When the cells were allowed to multiply freely, some of the protein molecules characteristic of the nucleus (where the genes are) tended to flow into the "cytoplasm," the part of the cell outside the nucleus. This indicated (along with related biochemical data) that the genes were sending out "partial replicas" of themselves, which entered the cytoplasm and multiplied there independently...
...With 20 to 25 students as a nucleus for the investigation group, next term we will delve into the need for a student activities center as well as official encouragement. That something is wrong with the present system is indicated by the fact that, although 90 percent of the Freshman class were prominent in high school activities, not over 25 percent of the Class of '50 are now engaged in any form of participation in undergraduate organizations...