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Starting with its next issue, the Freshman Yardling will include a four-page literary supplement entitled the "Unicorn," which will include both prose and poetry. Co-editor John L. Ernst '62 described the purpose of the "Unicorn" as an "attempt to provide an outlet for the really good freshman writers who otherwise could not publish their work...
...gave up a chance at college to go into business, became a real estate man during the Florida land boom, moved to California in 1921, where he built up a stake selling lots. His biggest successes came after World War II, when he recognized that the logical outlet for California's pressing population was the desert...
...optional fourth semester might continue into more advanced physics, explore as much as possible of quantum theory and relativity, and discuss "philosophic implications" more thoroughly. On the other hand, if a student proved extremely allergic to science after two semesters in the program, perhaps some outlet by petitioning to drop the third semester could be provided...
...Diego pump is radically different in many ways. Instead of being plugged into an electric outlet (an explosion hazard in the operating room), it gets its power from the pressure of tap water. This is converted by the reciprocating-engine principle into a pump action, giving pulsatile pressure in four Plexiglas chambers. In each of these is a rubber bladder corresponding to one of the heart's own chambers. The bladders are paired (like the auricles and ventricles) and they contract and expand in a rhythm like the heart's. In an additional chamber, corresponding to the lungs...
According to Dr. Lougee's theory, the northern shore of this sea was a towering ice cliff. Great icebergs broke away and drifted toward the outlet, a wide estuary that led to the Gulf of Mexico. When they melted, their embedded stones dropped to the bottom, creating the many glacial deposits that have puzzled other glaciologists...