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...that Yale is 250 years old today, but how it managed to get that old. For Yale, which is now Gothically situated in New Haven, was spawned, nursed, and sent out into the Great World by Harvard men. In return for this loving care Yale, like Frankenstein's monster, has turned on its creator and done all sorts of outrageous things--such as beating the Crimson quite regularly in football. This type of thing is quite like Yale, which has capitalized on Harvard's temporary weaknesses all through its life...
Last week Columbia University told about its meson beams, a powerful new tool that the physicists are using to explore the atom's sub-basement of mystery. Columbia's monster cyclotron starts with protons (positively charged nuclear particles), and whirls them around in a spiral path in a vacuum chamber 14 ft. in diameter. When they reach the outside spiral, they are moving at 140,000 miles per second (more than, seven-tenths of the speed of light), and carry 385 million electron volts of energy. At the peak of their speed and power, the protons...
...with this material a colorful and capable writer like Cohane (not an Old Blue) and the result is an unexpectedly fascinating account of how Yale and her Big Three rivals conceived the monster that today is college football then retreated themselves to the palsied field of amateur football, halting only to buy an occasional Big-Time team. Present-day Stadium diehards might also be pleased to learn that from 1938 to 1941 the hapless Yalies won 7 and lost 24 games and still survived. Local readers will also find new background and stories of Crimson great like Percy Haughton...
...last witness was a zoologist from London's Natural History Museum. With scientific objectivity, he knocked down all the theories: that the monster might be a seal, a giant eel, or anything else known to science. But he did not say categorically that the monster cannot exist. The earth, he admitted, may contain many things undreamed of by zoologists...
...broadcast the judge gave his decision: "Not proven." So the canny Highlanders may still amass tourist shillings, and Britons may still believe, if they want to, that their crowded island has a fresh-water monster...