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According to statistics of the physical examinations taken by Freshmen in October, the class of 1933 has had 21 per cent more medical treatment than last year's group, in the form of removal of tonsils, adenoids, and appendices, typhoid fever inoculations, and ocular treatment. This year's class is favored with the A's in posture, claiming 23, as compared with last year's 10. C is the predominant posture grade, having been given to 48 per cent of each class. The B's and D's average about 24 per cent for each class...
With eyes bandaged a Jew and a Nordic lay with ocular fraternity in Manhattan's Eye & Ear Hospital last week. The Nordic, one Bert Ferguson, had one glass eye. The Jew, one Charles E. Greenblatt, had a gauze-packed socket, into which a glass eye soon would be set. His extracted eye had had a tumor. His other eye was good. But Nordic Ferguson's other eye was bad. It bore a cataract, an opaque thickening of the cornea that prevented light images going through his pupil and striking upon his retina. So hopeless was his case that...
...present time there are 26 theories of color vision held by scientists and physicians. Experiments which attempt a psychological explanation of the ocular mechanism have been very drawn out, and as yet not altogether conclusive. Progress in experimentation upon the retina of the eye with a sensitive vacuum tube amplifier connected to a recording galvanometer has been unusually rapid...
...addressed the English 28 Club on "The Significance of the Essay Today" last night in Gore Hall Common Room, declaring that Frank Moore Colby is America's foremost essayist Professor Gay also stated that the modern newspaper column is the incubator of the modern essay, and said, "Being an 'ocular athlete', that is seeing things that other people pass by unobserved, is one of the greatest aids to essay writing...
...Freshmen wore glasses, either constantly, for distance, or for near work. This fall we found that 37.2 per cent of the Freshmen wore glasses. In other words, the enlightened part of the public who send their boys to Harvard College may be considered as appreciating fully the dangers of ocular defects and this appreciation has extended at least as far back as 1914. In 1914, 43.5 per cent of the Freshmen had had some operation upon their nose or throat. In 1919, 43.6 per cent of the Freshmen had had their tonsils removed, and a certain further per cent, rather...