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...animals. Such cells must have access to water, as a medium of nourishment and energy exchange, and to oxygen or carbon dioxide for metabolism. An atmosphere would also be desirable, 1) as a storehouse of oxygen and carbon dioxide; 2) as a shield against the ultraviolet radiation of the parent sun; 3) as a muffler against sharp day & night temperature changes. Any conceivable kind of living cell would be killed or paralyzed by extreme cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life Beyond Earth? | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...problem of keeping up relations with the national parent organization, the American Student Union, is not so acute. Only the Marx-Stange group will be acceptable to the ASU or will consider membership in it an asset. So it appears likely that this part of the Union, even in defeat, would remain the official HSU. The pros and cons of membership in the national body have been fully debated in past years, and the present crisis over foreign policy can add nothing to what has already been said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT ASU LIKE IT | 10/4/1940 | See Source »

Ulysses "Lupe" Lupien, '39 Crimson diamond leader, threatens to give Harvard its first major league ball player since Charley Devene. After two seasons in the minors with Scranten and Little Rock, both Boston Red Sox farm clubs, Lupien has been called up to the parent organization for the closing games of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUPIEN BREAKS INTO BOSTON LINEUP: BATS, FIELDS WELL | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...that happened was that I learned a sense of proportion. ... I had the best time I ever had in any institution, committed more crimes and follies, led the forces of rebellion and disorder . . . and, because of a dozen dry words spoken haphazardly by one man, suffered no ap parent ill effects from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Wrong Attitude | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...deploring "taking a year out of a boy's life" as one parent complained, patriotically to serve his country, is plain drivel. If it takes out only a year of five years everyone will be extremely lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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