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...cartoonists panting for a subject on which to exercise their talents, a Harvard man's map of the United States has always provided a ready field of endeavor -- that wonderful specimen of cartographic art which labels all land west of Boston as uninhabitable desert. Even within the sacred confines of the Yard, the unfortunate myth of Harvard indifference has gained appalling credence. But innocent Harvard has too long blushed under the oft repeated charges of intellectual isolation and smug localism. The University, long ready to absorb such blows flush on its scholarly chin, has at last reared up and made...
...there are the big producers, who like to play poker and polo. Intrepid and hard-working Ouida Rathbone is leader of an amorphous salon of her own, and she managed to bag a specimen of nearly every Hollywood social genus for her party...
Lest the news from Paris terrify timid people, Physicist John Ray Dunning of Columbia said that fission experimenters now believe there is an automatic check against a multiplying chain reaction getting out of control. The accelerating release of atomic energy would heat up the uranium specimen; this heat would speed up the neutrons beyond the point of maximum effectiveness for fissions, and the reaction would therefore slow down, and stop...
Last year, at the height of the craze which led college students to swallow goldfish, mice, worms and other spectacular inedibles, a Stanford student swallowed a specimen Triturus. Until last week the young man did not realize how lucky he had been. Since he did not even get sick after his feat, the downed Triturus must have been a male or an eggless female...
...humans known are Sinanthropus pekinensis, the old man of China, and Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape man of Java. Their ages have been variously put at 400,000 to 1,000,000 years. First Pithecanthropus relics were found in Java by a Dutchman, Eugene Dubois, in 1892. First good Sinanthropus specimen was discovered in the Choukoutien caves near Peking...