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...Observatory Hill. The Harvard College Observatory itself has more personnel engaged in IGY work than any astronomical observatory in the country. The Observatory, with its special stations in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, is the greatest single producer of solar data, vital to IGY research in solar-terrestrial phenomena, such as aurorae and magnetic and radio-transmitting effects. In addition, University and Smithsonian personnel made significant contributions to the IGY in the fields of oceanography (the Geology Department and graduate students), meteor work (the Astronomy Department and Smithsonian), and upper atmosphere studies (mainly Smithsonian...
...movement. [She has] matronly outlines that would not be expected in a 24-year-old Florentine model, and there is a heavy, vertical falling of the dress into her lap, suggesting pregnancy." As for the artist's approach, Da Vinci is known to have been fascinated by the phenomena of creation and procreation. The portrait's primeval background, said Dr. Keele, represents the Creation. Coupling this conclusion with what he believes to have been La Gioconda's condition, he suggested that the painting might better be renamed Genesis...
...strangest phenomena in an otherwise unusual season is that the strongest team on paper appears to be fifth-place Brown. The Bruins are right behind Dartmouth and Harvard in total defense and trail first-place Cornell by three-tenths of a yard per game in total offense...
Lindsley will discuss "Psychological Phenomena and the Electro-Encephalogram" in an exploration of the mechanism underlying perception, learning, motivation, and emotion...
...published work deals mainly with the problem of scientific detachment. Terming his writing "phenomenological" rather than "existential," he has written a critique of Karl Jaspers and an article, "The Standard Observer in the Sciences of Man," which seeks to eliminate the ideal of a strict science of human phenomena...