Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Possibility of Harvard's meeting William and Mary College and the University of Maryland in a triangular track meet in Williamsburg, Virginia, on April 14, is expressed in a dispatch from that city received here yesterday. According to the information received the Crimson 'runners are to spend their spring vacation there, practicing on the track of William and Mary College...
According to Dr. Hrdlicka the only U. S. medical schools offering courses in anthropology are those of Johns Hopkins, Harvard University of Virginia, Western Reserve, Washington University of St. Louis, Universities of Chicago and Stanford...
...Their common possession is abundant food. However there are short peoples (Japanese, Mediterraneans, Central Americans, Fuegians, Malays and southern Asiatics) who have descended from taller stocks and who have an adequate food supply. Because they all live close to the oceans, Professor Robert Bennett Bean of the University of Virginia reasons: "Sea areas and probably sea foods have an influence in reducing the stature by increasing the iodine intake. [The thyroid gland in the neck utilizes the iodine and controls bodily growth.] . . . Looked at in its broadest sense, environment molds the individual, selection retains the fittest under different environments...
...Having witnessed the rescue work on the submarine S-51, which was sunk last year off the coast of Virginia, I feel that the navy did everything possible to save the lives of the six men who were trapped in a compartment on the S-4, which sank recently off the coast of Massachusetts, and people who criticized the Navy Department have done so unfairly," said Commander R. C. Grady, Professor of Naval Science in an interview with the CRIMSON last night. Commander Grady further stated that if only those people who have made such a fuss over the rescue...
Ladies Must Dress. After repulsing the improper advances of her employer's son, a shopgirl (Virginia Valli) marries the honest poor boy whom she has captivated with her girl friend's sartorial assistance. This merry plot is a frayed and apparently accidental ribbon tied to the wrist of a fashion show...