Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...director of intra-mural athletics, showing a total of 1725 for the past year, summarizes another well-managed and on the whole successful season. As in past years winter sports, largely because of the popularity of squash and basketball, have called out more men than either fall or spring athletics. Tennis has again proved itself most popular in the seasons of warm weather...
...result of Freshman competition in spring sports Smith Halls have been proclaimed the inter-dormitory champions for the spring season. According to an announcement made by A. W. Samborski '25 Smith led the inter-dormitory league with a total of 10 1-2 points. Standish and McKinlock were tied for second with six and a half points each while Gore was last with five and a half points...
Genetics, the study of life processes, had two good and separate hours in the news last week. At Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., the Carnegie Institution of Washington conducted a genetics display to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its own incorporation and the coeval establishment of its Departments of Genetics. In Manhattan, at the American Museum of Natural History, the Eugenics Research Association (founded 1913) and the American Eugenics Society (founded 1925) jointly conducted a festival exposition on their specialty, the science of development through artificial selection...
Department of Genetics. Charles Benedict Davenport, 63, was an associate professor at the University of Chicago in 1904. He had the idea of a station for experimental evolution, and to him was given the direction of the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor at its creation a quarter-century ago. Its first work was on plants and animals. Mrs. Harriman a few years later established a eugenics record office adjoining his station. The two were later combined under him, and his supervision extended over research on all forms of life. He is still director...
...wheat recovery was accompanied by rises in corn, oats and rye. It also aided the Manhattan stock market, which opened strong in a day of light trading. As far as permanent relief of the wheat situation was concerned, however, it was felt that only a major crop scare in spring wheat would result in continued rising prices. It has been estimated that there will be a world carry-over of 500 million bushels on July...