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...Haven, Conn., October 12.--Dean H. S. Graves of the Yale Forestry School has announced that the Yale Corporation, with the approval of the Athletic Association, has set aside 200 acres of the Ray Tompkins Memorial tract near the new Yale golf course as a preserve for the native plant and wild life of this region...
This vast memorial includes 700 acres. It was presented to Yale University as a memorial by Mrs. Ray Tompkins to her deceased husband, one of Yale's greatest-early athletes and captain of the 1884 football team. Formerly, the tract was the property of John Milton Greist, who devoted it for more than two decades as a preserve for deer, elk, and other big game...
...School, St. Louis, began research to make possible visualization of the gallbladder by use of the Xray. They found that certain salts injected into the body are eliminated through the bile, which is stored in the gallbladder. They knew that iodin and bromin salts are opaque to the Roentgen ray. They secured a combination of these salts and obtained X-ray pictures of the abdomen in which the gallbladder, previously invisible because of soft tissue, appeared almost as clearly as did the bones themselves. Stones in the gallbladder were localized easily. At the meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society...
...natural instincts a scientist, however, President Little did not give up his research. With Professor W. T. Bovie of the Harvard Medical School, he experimented with the application of ultra-violet rays to plant and animal diseases. With the aid of fused quartz produced by Edward R. Berry of the Lynn General Electric Company, results were produced and ultra-violet rays were pronounced valuable in the curing of rickets in children. President Little recently called the X-ray harmful to the human body, after he had experimented extensively with its effects on mice...
...major sports are now quartered on the second floor; the track teams, both University and Freshman are again in the east wing of the building, while the football teams, University, Seconds, and Freshman, share the rest of the second floor with the doctor's office, the new X-ray room, and the rubbing room. The last three are centrally located at the head of the main stairway...