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...pearls, spices, rare woods, stretches 1,300 miles from North to South, 3,000 from East to West and are inhabited by 60,000,000 brown-bodied souls, not counting some 1,500,000 Asiatics and Europeans. Queen Wilhelmina has never visited her Eastern Empire (although one of New Guinea's highest peaks is named for her), but she can hardly fail to appreciate what a windfall came to her little country the day in 1602 when daring adventurers of the Dutch East India Co. set out on a five-year voyage to claim the islands...
Early next month Dill, who has been with the Fatigue Laboratory ever since its organization in 1927, will start feeding his guinea pigs an ounce of gelatin a day. Not in dessert form, this gelatin is dry and must be washed down with cold water...
Twenty-two students, mostly Freshmen, have volunteered to act as guinea pigs in a novel experiment which the University is sponsoring, David B. Dill, professor of Industrial Physiology, announced yesterday. The object of the experiment is to determine whether gelatin is the miracle food it is claimed...
Since October 1 these 22 guinea pigs have lived under a rigid training regimen. Assistant Track Coach Bill Neufeld has had them entirely under his control, and has given them about the same sort of training that middle distance runners undergo. However, there have been no restrictions on their diet...
...FROM THE SOUTH SEAS-Margaret Mead-Morrow ($4). Dr. Mead's three books, Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea, and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, are here reprinted in one volume, with a new preface. These gently acute, strongly persuasive studies of the power of custom are well known to every anthropologist and to many thoughtful laymen. Their usefulness, particularly to those who are most directly responsible in the training of children, is by no means yet exhausted...