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Although timed as an early celebration of Regatta Weekend, the main purpose of the meeting is to reunite for an evening a class which has been split into seven pieces ever since freshman year...
Brown University's nine, leading the Eastern League despite Saturday's split doubleheader at Dartmouth, invades Soldiers Field today at 3:30 p.m. The Bruins will be the Crimson's fourth opponent and third in League competition...
...that temperature, moisture in the experimental tissues freezes into ice crystals, rearranging each cell's molecular structure into a "thermodynamically stable configuration" -the scientists' fancy name for death. What the experimenters needed was a quick-freeze system that would jump through the "death stage" in a split second, turn their research tissues into a vitreous, glasslike state before internal liquid had a chance to crystallize...
...such split-second cooling, Luyet and his associates built a kind of miniature ducking stool. With it they suspend bits of animal tissue and plant leaves over a container of liquid nitrogen kept at -320° F. One brief duck, and the cooling process is complete. Muscle tissue from the hearts of chick embryos has been successfully frozen by the clucking stool and later brought to life...
...Carroll, who skippered the first Division B race, picked up the remaining markers. Bishop sailed the rest of the schedule with Carroll and later Tinm Brown as his crew. Dean Howells and Tom Chinlund split the crewing duties in Nathanson's boat...