Word: physiologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four men who spoke were: Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, Lucien Brouha, physiologist to the Grant Study, Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, and William Y. Elliott, professor of Government. So far, they have held very different positions on food relief, but they are of one accord that no action should be taken through a private group such as the Hoover Committee, but that the government should be the one to formulate and carry out the work...
First on the list of speakers is Bart J. Bok, associate professor of Astronomy, and ardent Faculty supporter of the food plan, who will tell why the problem of food relief is of immediate and pressing importance. Following him is Lucien Brouha, physiologist to the Grant Study, who plans to cover the physiological aspects of hunger. Third speaker is William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, who opposes the plan unless it is done through the auspices of the United States Government. Finally, Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, who has recently returned from Europe, will discuss the relation...
Another distinguished Lowlander was Lucien Brouha, Belgian Physiologist who arrived on the same boat as the Duke and Duchess. Lately he has been living-on-a-gallop between the Fatigue Laboratory and Washington, where his knowledge of the scientific aspects of feeding Europe has been as welcome as milk to a kitten...
Last week a distinguished scientist, Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Britain's greatest physiologist, ventured an answer-a 413-page book entitled Man on His Nature (Macmillan, $3.75). Sherrington's studies of the nervous system won him a Nobel Prize...
Nevertheless, mind, like the brain and body it inhabits, has evolved. Here Physiologist Sherrington is mightily puzzled. "The present individual is the latest bud from an energy-pattern which has without intermission been throwing off buds of its pattern for these last 20 million years or more. . . . The continuum is a material continuum. ... But the long history [of the psychical component] has not been a continuous one. It has been a succession of brief discontinuities. ... At the beginning of each successive generation of the energy-system, the psyche lapsed, only to appear after that physical system had reached a certain...