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Like Teen-Agers. Previous attempts to reproduce the effects of human smoking in the laboratory had failed because animals could not be taught to inhale. At Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, Dr. William G. Cahan devised an ingenious method of inserting a plastic tube through an opening in a beagle's windpipe and pumping in smoke drawn from cigarettes. The animals were harnessed in an open box and, after a few weeks of gradual conditioning (at first, many coughed and retched like teen-agers with their first drags), showed signs of addiction. They inhaled voluntarily and appeared...
Augustin explained that Sloan Foundation money could be used to supplement the current number of fellowships in order to reach the 100 mark...
...present, it appears most likely that next fall the Business School will, abide by its present commitment of providing 75 minority fellowships, 67 of them toblacks- the same number it provided last September without any money from the Sloan Foundation...
Lombard said that George P. Baker '25. who retired from the Business School dean ship on January 1, had worked to get the Sloan money for more than a year. "The idea of making this a consortium of nine schools was the Sloan Foundation's," Lombard said...
...other eight schools benefiting from the Sloan Foundation grant are at Carnegie-Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, M.I.T., Standford. the University of Pennsylvania, and Berkeley...