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...another 1,500 physiologists from the ends of the earth (280 from the U. S.) streamed into Leningrad's glass-roofed Uritsky Palace last week to constitute the 18th International Physiological Congress. The showpiece of Russian science, 85-year-old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, mounted the Uritsky rostrum, rang a bell. Long ago Dr. Pavlov conducted an experiment wherein he would ring a bell just before feeding his dogs. Soon the dogs, expecting a meal, would start to water at the mouth at sound of the bell. Dr. Pavlov called this drooling a conditioned reflex. It proved that imagination...
...Class of '69 had the honor of leading the parade, having one grizzled veteran, banner in hand, as a representative. George P. Gardner '10, Chief Marshal, was also in the front rank, taking his position on the rostrum immediately on arrival...
Gundlach then called for cheers from the Senior Class, who lustily saluted '10, '85, major sports, minor sports, and the ladies. At this point in the exercises the rostrum was turned over to Clarence C. Little '10, permanent class secretary. He declared that the Class of 1910 had several degrees to confer on its members. A diploma was claimed to be the most useless thing in the world, and for this reason fans were presented with the comment that the Class would have to be "like Sally Rand, not Talleyrand." George A. Parker '10 was the first to be honored...
Palmer on Rostrum...
After a full hour of this, Premier Flandin stepped from the rostrum, walked slowly from the Chamber, slumped in a faint in the corridor outside. He was hustled home, put to bed. Not for many hours did he learn that his entire speech had been in vain. Paunchy little Edouard Herriot, leader of the Radical Socialists, had leaped in to plead the government's case until long past midnight. It did not change a vote. The Flandin Cabinet was voted...