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...graduate who was a freshman fifty years ago the present eating habits of Harvard students seem trifling. From the foundation of the college to about five years ago the normal system of feeding the students was by a common table. For many years there was no other possibility inasmuch as the students were too numerous to be absorbed into private families. Sam Batchelder has shown us that for two hundred years there was a college commons and likewise a state of war between the steward for the time being and the students. In the good old days when the commons...
...hand. A neighborhood doctor, summoned during the night, had said her pain was due to "a little rheumatism" and ordered applications of cold water. She is kept living by the blood transfusion and by a mechanism of tubes through which liquid nourishment is let seep directly into her veins. Normal feeding is impossible...
...paper at the receiving end. A jet of cold air controlled by radio signals transmitting the desired picture by the usual radiograph process, modulates the hot air, producing the shading in the received picture. The advantage of magnifying photographs sent by radio: when the picture ig reduced, again to normal size, its details sharpen...
...training a high-power rifle upon the balcony of Signor Mussolini's office, from which II Duce was shortly to deliver his Armistice Day: address. A special military tribunal sat upon the case last week in the grim Roman Palazzo di Giustizia; but the prisoner faced only the normal Italian criminal law. Recent legislation providing the death penalty for attempts on the Premier's life is not retroactive (TIME, Nov. 15, 22), and would-be-assassin Tito Zaniboni faced, last week, a maximum penalty of 27 years in jail. His bravado was prodigious...
...persuaded persons arrested for intoxication to blow up football bladders. Such exhaled gasses he made to pass through a solution of potassium bichromate, which changed from yellow to green in proportion to the amount of alcohol on the individual's breath. Extra Physical Work up to ten times normal is possible for a human in fair health. Neither the heart nor lungs limited the amount of work the body could do, in the bicycle-riding experiments of Dr. L. J. Henderson of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Unsympathetic Cat. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon of Harvard displayed a cat from which...