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...post 8000 feet up in the Andes, at Arequipa, Peru. This one was abandoned because of long periods of cloudy weather. The Astronomy Department now operates from the central observatory on Summer House Hill on Concord Avenue. It also has a subsidiary station at Agassia (Dormerly Oak Ridge station) in Massachusetts two high altitude sites in Colorado, three stations in New Mexico, and at the Boyden station on Harvard Kopje on the high veldt of interior South Africa...
...mention of crickets is complete without a comment on its props. For instance, for the spectators there must always, be oak trees for shade, and deck chairs of a low enough pitch fro a mid-game slumber. For the game itself there must be a perfect oval field, sown with the lushest English turf; and for the players, there must be a bat, preferably a finely-sprung precision instrument autographed by some of the legendary greats of cricket. Also there must be compete game uniform, including immaculate white sneakers, white flannels, white shirt, and cap--each player wearing a distinctively...
...been playing basketball this season at Madisonville (Ky.) Junior High, and hopes to play football next fall. Two years ago, despite surgery and X rays, Norman was wasting away with a spreading cancer of the thyroid. Then his doctor got him into the little (30-bed) hospital at Oak Ridge, Tenn., which is set aside for atomic medicine. There, Norman had an "atomic cocktail"-radioactive sodium iodide dissolved in water. The cancer colonies soaked up the iodine; from each radioactive atom, beta particles and gamma rays shot out to destroy cancerous cells. Norman goes back to Oak Ridge regularly...
...Bone cancers are hard to treat because if radioactive elements (such as calcium and phosphorus) settle in hard bone, they also affect the marrow and damage the blood-making cells. At Oak Ridge, doctors and radiologists have just eliminated gallium7 2 as unsuitable for treatment, largely because it takes too long to settle in the bone (and meanwhile loses most of its radioactivity). Next on their list is gallium...
Movie shows in the dining hall every other week are run through the efforts of a very active House Committee. The Committee was also instrumental in starting the Oak Leaf, Adams own news paper. Housemaster David M. Little '18 is extremely happy about this Renaissance of activity. He looks for no particular quality other than general academic competence and a willingness to contribute to the life of the House in its most general aspects and in any variety of ways. "This is a good progressive House", he comments, "definitely forward-looking...