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...Association of American Colleges speaks with authority, for it represents 457 colleges and universities, serving them when they are bothered with problems of administration, finance, architecture, athletics, curriculum, scholarships, enlistment and training of teachers. Founded in 1915, its function was at first simply to hold yearly meetings at which Christian education and the problems of the liberal college were discussed. But the colleges needed more than that. In 1929 the A. A. C. expanded its services, doubled its fee to $50 a year, hired as associate secretary, surveyor and researcher tall, broad-shouldered Archie Maclnness Palmer, 36, author...
...with his own hands Professor Piccard installs the escape valve rope which leads from the bag through a mercury chamber into the gondola. It was failure of that valve to function on last year's flight that nearly cost the lives of the professor and Charles Kipfer, his assistant. Kipfer is there today helping, casting envious glances at youthful Max Cosyns, the new assistant. Kipfer's parents forbade him to make the second flight...
...hope is to operate the reform school on the lines of a private school. Superintendent Robert Rosenbluth will function as headmaster. The boys, whose ages range from 12 to 16 years, will have 700 acres in which to work, play and roam. They will wear no uniforms, live in cottages, conform to no more rules than do private school boys...
Into Warwick will troop some 30 doctors from the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Manhattan. Under direction of Columbia's Medical Dean Willard Cole Rappleye and with the advice of Professor Frederick Tilney (neurologist) and his colleagues, the platoon of doctors will function as a pre-gangster prophylactic unit...
Insulin is a hormone secreted by the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. Its function is to regulate the combustion and storage of sugar in the body. Failure of these small cellular masses causes blood sugar to increase abnormally. Withdrawal of sugar from the tissues results in hunger, weakness, loss of weight; tissue proteins and fats become converted to sugar to satisfy the body's needs, the patient is starved of carbohydrates. As a substitute for the body's insulin the patient is given injections of commercial insulin prepared from the pancreas of hogs or oxen...