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...proteins. In certain types of insanity (the manias) the brain apparently becomes permanently boiled. In other types (catatonia) the brain is diluted. Using drugs which give the opposite effect helps the various insane types, and sometimes cures. Lack of oxygen lets the brain get soft. Hence, said Wilder Dwight Bancroft (Cornell) who with his colleague G. Holmes Richter made these observations: "Aviators may become incapacitated temporarily when flying at high altitudes. There is a height for each aviator above which it is not safe for him to go, as he may develop mental confusion, leading to errors of performance, sometimes...
...Pointing out that "from a modern class of over 500 men, obviously no selection of 45 (and including the Elihu Club, which has fallen into the system, 601 men can longer be possible on the old basis," it reprinted a "courageous" letter written to the Yale Daily News by Wilder Hobson, a 1928 member of Scroll...
...Brooks House at 6.30 o'clock Friday, May 1, the Phillips Brooks House Association will hold its annual dinner. The retiring members of the cabinet will give brief reports on their year's work and the new officers, G. K. Martin '32, N. N. Cochrane '32, and F. F. Wilder '32, will be installed...
...dance: R. C. Aldrich '31, Ames, J. M. Bradley '33, J. DeQ. Briggs, Jr. '32, F. O. Canfield '32, W. H. Crosby '32, S. P. Duggan, Jr. '31, R. M. Faxon '32, W. W. Foshay '31, A. W. Patterson '32, C. C. Perry '31, Robinson, Walcott, F. F. Wilder '32, Yeomans, and R. G. Noyes, head tutor of Dunster House. The list of patronesses includes Mesdames J. S. Ames, R. H. Atkins, Matthew Luce, Robert Saltonstall, A. M. Tozzer, Charles Walcott...
...winner last year was Earle Stanley Randell '33, who was the leading man in the course at mid-years then. The prize was established under the will of Elizabeth Wilder and is given annually...