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Owls & Mice. At 300 sessions, 1,335 papers were read, on everything from owls to unborn stars. An owl-man, Dr. Lee R. Dice of the University of Michigan, described experiments on the survival value of protective coloration. He sprinkled a laboratory floor with soil. He populated the area with deer-mice, half of which matched the soil in color; half of which did not. Then he loosed owls, turned down the lights and retired. Over a series of such experiments, the owls, ate 24 to 29% more contrasting mice than matching ones. This, said Dr. Dice, illustrated the biological...
...galaxy is full of such "globules" or unborn stars, which look like black patches against the starry background. Professor Bart J. Bok of Harvard found 23 of them silhouetted against a single glowing nebula. They probably weigh much less than the sun, but are several thousand billion miles in diameter...
Plenty of Planets. Harvard's Dr. Fred L. Whipple studied the globules more closely, came up with a cheery idea: within the unborn stars there may be unborn planets. Under proper conditions, said he, a contracting globule may leave parts of its matter outside, to form into separate spheres and revolve as planets...
...distant possessions is famous not for its connection with Harvard, but because of the important events which transpired there in August, 1944. Dumbarton Oaks, scene of the conference at which the foreign secretaries of the United States, Great Britain and Russia determined the basic structure of the then unborn United Nations Organization, was given to Harvard by the Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. One of the largest Georgian estates in the District of Columbia, Dumbarton Oaks, built in 1800, possesses an orangery, a brook with miniature water falls, a yew walk, swimming pool, tennis courts and an old fashioned...
Some gridiron trickery as yet unborn...