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...conditions in the Near East have interrupted the plans of Harvard archaeologists to search out evidence about the little known people of five to six thousand years ago who were among the first to domesticate plants and animals and thus develop a settled agricultural economy, Derwood W. Lockard, of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, reported last night in a lecture here...
...them. He and Charles Herbert Best, still a medical student but an expert on blood sugar measurement, went feverishly to work in a hot, shabby little laboratory heavy with the smell of anesthetic. Many more dogs than ten were necessary; in fact, one of the key dogs of the search was No. 92. But one day a miracle happened. A dog which the experimenters had turned into a diabetic by removing its pancreas lay dying, unable to get to its feet. They shot some extract into him. His blood sugar fell. In a few hours the dog was walking around...
Four questions will be put before the assembly: Can free search after truth be continued during the present national emergency? Can the rights of free criticism, acess to any and every book, and student self-government to continued? Is educational opportunity to be extended to everyone, regardless of race, color, creed, or pocketbook? Can the campus be free from intolerance and bigotry...
...tactics of the Washington strategists for war. Again and again they have smothered genuine anti-fascist sentiments for keeping out of war, and have identified us with the already discredited Lindberghs and Vern Marshalls. But this is Cambridge and we are still going through the motions of a composed search for truth. If the Student Council does not mean us to take its library literally as a War Library, but intends it for part of our education, it should correct its choice of books. For when the frenzy of Washington jingoism succeeds in permeating the Yard there will no longer...
...Southerner and started work on her first novel, a long, cloudy story of a deaf-mute. Appearing last year under the publishers' makeshift title of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, it won great critical acclaim. With the money from her book, Carson McCullers moved to Manhattan in search of kindred spirits...