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Alumni Articles

November 1953
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Alumni Articles
November 1953

Stewart J. Teaze '18 is the author of Centennial Commemorating the Opening ofJapan in 1853 by Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (USN) published in mimeographed form by the Perry Centennial Committee.

Recent publications of Lorrin A. Riggs '33 in collaboration with others are: The Scotopic A Wave in the Electrical Response ofthe Human Retina, reprinted from the November issue of the Journal of Physiology, and The Disappearance of Steadily FixatedVisual Test Objects, which has been reprinted from the June number of the Journal of theOptical Society of America.

Fire and Casualty Insurance Survey, prepared for the Burley Auction Warehouse Association by William C. Clay Jr. '37, has been published as a brochure of 24 pages.

Dr. Robert M. Stecher '19 is the author of Hereditary Joint Disease reprinted from the March-April, 1952 issue of Acta Physiotherapica at Rheumatologica Belgica and, with others, of The Genetics of RheumatoidArthritis reprinted from the June issue of The American Journal of Human Genetics.

New England Gardens Provide PerfectSettings for the Best New Iris by Frederick W. Cassebeer '18 appears in the August issue of Popular Gardening.

Pumps and Pumping Stations by Richard Hazen '32 appears in the June number of the Journal of the New England Water WorksAssociation.

The February issue of College and University Business contains an article by Francis H. Horn '30 entitled Is Academic FreedomReally Being Threatened?

Why Babe Ruth Quit Baseball by David M. Camerer '37 appears in the September 27 issue of This Week.

The Beginnings of Local Literature andSocial Clubs by Arthur H. Lord '10 appears in the August 20 and 27 issues of the NewtonVillager.

David E. Scherman '36 has supplied both pictures and text for My Name Is Sam, which appeared in the September 14 issue of Life.

How One Pier Got Rid of the Mob by Budd Schulberg '36 was published in TheNew York Times Magazine of September 27.

Barry Marks '47 is the author of an article entitled The Concept of Myth in Virgin Land which appears in the Spring number of the American Quarterly.

Leon E. Woodman '99 is the author of An Exercise Book to Accompany the Woodman Musical Slide Rule, which has been published as a brochure of 27 pages.

Alexander D. Gibson '24 has written a History of Mclndoes Academy, which has been published in connection with the Vermont school's centennial celebration. The 110-page booklet is "written in the chatty style o£ a small-town newspaper correspondent" and "describes the exhibitions, oyster suppers, promenades, baseball and basketball games, and commencements, as well as other aspects of school and village life during the past hundred years...