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...digestive tract by giving to rabbits large numbers of small glass beads. Then the rabbits were killed at various intervals, and the distribution of the material throughout the stomach and intestines was noted. Recently, Doctors Walter C. Alvarez and B. L. Freedlander, San Francisco, of the George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research in the University of California Medical School, used a similar method in studying passage of food through the human body. They found that the normal individual with good digestion and a daily excretion does not in 24 hours pass anything like 100% of the material given. Fifty...
...heard about it from natives of the Siberian coast. He did not find it, however. It was probably first sighted in 1849. It has always tempted the adventurous American mariner. A U. S. whaler cruised its southern shore in 1867, and it was explored in 1881 by Capt. Hooper, who took possession of it for the U. S. and named it New Columbia...
Nine lap--(Won by Harvard (Kobes, L. Ryan, Sherburne, Kane); second, M. I. T. (Holt, Hooper, Grossman, Preston...
Four Academy runners crossed the finish line together so causing a four cornered tie for first place. These four men, who had covered the whole of the 2 mile 615 yard course together, were Chute, Holmes, Hooper, and Look. The time, which was very fast for a schoolboy team over the distance, was 12 minutes 8 seconds. J. Smith of Andover and B. E. Swede '27 came down the home stretch together, and it looked for a time as though the schoolboys would not keep their slate clean. Smith, however, pulled ahead with a final spurt, and Swede...
...professor of Zoology and director of the Zoological laboratory, will give the first part of the work, and will be followed by Professor Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the College Observatory. Instruction in geology will be given by Professor R. A. Daly '93, Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology, the final phase of the course being given under the charge of Professor W. J. V. Osterhout, of the Department of Botany...