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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston. Unsympathetic Cat. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon of Harvard displayed a cat from which he, as a turn of surgical skill, had removed considerable of its sympathetic nervous system. This is the network of nerves which regulate the automatic functions of the body, as digestion, breathing. It is far older (biologically) and far more essential to life than that part of the brain in which conscious thought takes place-the cortex. The cat thus operated upon by Dr. Cannon lacked many normally automatic responses to stimuli. A fearsome object, as a dog, did not make it bristle...
...same field of musical clubs from an ever increasing host of other universities. There are now approximately two hundred and fifty of these organizations which give excellent performances and provide keen competition for each other on the annual Chistmas and Easter trips which they all undertake. The older clubs have maintained their prestige only by striving for continual improvements in their concerts and by making their appeal to the general concert-going public in addition to the college alumni of the larger cities. Their programs have been expanded beyond the limits of the conventional group of college gloes and made...
...ALLINGHAMS-May Sinclair -Macmillan ($2.50). To Author Sinclair the most engrossing of all the phenomena of human behavior are those of growth. She writes about children as they get older, watches their instincts and emotions stiffen in the mold, closely observes tendencies hardening into characters. In another book, Arnold Waterlow, she riveted her attention to the slow shaping of a single personality. Now she brings six children into the world of her mind...
...title five years after that I really had my greatest fight with Jefferies in 1901. Fitzsimmons wouldn't give me a return fight so I had to wait until Jefferies took it away from him in order to get another shot at the Championship. I was ten years older than Jefferies and hadn't been fighting for four years. It was a 25 round bout. Up to the twenty-third round I had the edge on him and it was in that round that he knocked me out. It was quite a feather in my cap to be able...
...Very few German girls stay at home now. The younger men accept this as a necessary condition partly due to the War; but of course some of the older men object to seeing women in offices and public positions. . . . My own interests are divided between industrial problems and the Hamburg Burgerschaft (House of Burgesses). Most of its other women members are teachers. . . . Oh, we are not so different from Americans. There are few Germans like my husband and myself, but we are happy...