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...workman who uses his muscles gets bigger ones. Does the head of an intellectual who uses his brain constantly get bigger & bigger during his life? The Smithsonian Institution's Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka thinks so, has asked the world's brainy people who find their heads going up in size to let him know about...
...with buildings and architecture. He had an idea to recommend, and be mentioned little else. The Dean wants to improve the quality of building now being done, and be realizes that this can only be done by improving the ability of those who do the building as is the workman, so is his product. The journalistic counterpart of this idea provides a similar basis for the Nieman Fellowships. Thus Dean Hudnut plans to require the students of his School to take an outside apprenticeship of at least six months before graduation, the object being more practical experience with actual tools...
Yesterday workman gave the last touches to a paint job on the Yard front of Holden Chapel. The triangular panel containing the coat of arms has received a nice new coat of Yale blue...
...Charles Eugene Bedaux. Although slight in stature and of no great muscle, this ambitious little Frenchman promptly took the highest paid job he could qualify for in Manhattan as an unskilled laborer, that of a "sand hog" digging skyscraper and subway foundations under heavy air pressure which gives a workman who emerges too quickly cramps and pains called "the bends." Using his brain as well as his shovel, Sand Hog Bedaux was able after a few years to begin living the American success story of which he had dreamed in France. The new trade of "efficiency expert" had fired...
...found in 1929 in limestone caves at Choukoutien, 20 mi. from Peiping. This apish oldster is now generally conceded to be 1,000,000 years old, most ancient of known human fossils. Last summer, two days before Sino-Japanese fighting broke out in north China, a native workman employed by the Rockefeller-endowed diggers at Choukoutien turned up an upper jawbone of Peking Man, containing six teeth. This was the first upper jawbone, although several skulls and lower jawbones had been found before. The new find was got safely to a museum in spite of the fighting. Dr. Ralph Works...