Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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High voltage, deep therapy, X-ray machine for treatment of cancer. mtoicnif OUTSTANDING work is being done at the Stanford School of Medicine in San Francisco today in the cancer research conducted in the laboratories and in the tumor clinic for out-patients at Stanford Hospital. The clinic was established three years ago, and since that time some 1 ,200 patients have been treated. In addition to the actual treatment given, elaborately de- tailed records are kept of the case history of each patient as long as he lives. This is an important contribution to the improved treatment of cancer, since the data enables any physician dealing with any stage of treatment to know every other stage; also, out of all the recorded data may appear new knowledge regarding treatment. In this work clinicians attempt by cooperation with diagnosticians, surgeons, radiologists, and pathologists to make the Cancer Clinic an effective means of applying what science already knows about cancer to the disease itself; while in the laboratories men are endeavoring to discover some new fact about the affliction. In the laboratory is a colony of more than 1 000 rats, used for research in tumor transplants. Keeping controls constant, experimentation so far has produced evidence that susceptibility to tumor is a changeable factor that can be influenced by selective breeding, but just what the heredi- tary mechanism may be is not known. Cancerous tissue is preserved and studied in the laboratory.

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School of iicceeded ow.How- p with all t problem TO REGISTRAR JOHN PEARCE MITCHELL goes the some- what arduous task of determining the academic standing of each one of Stanford ' s more than 4,000 students. In addition to this, through his office must go all the Vocational Guidance work, which directs the student towards a future occupation, and the Appointment Service, which finds temporary and perma- nent employment for those enrolled in school. IN ADDITION to his duties as assistant registrar, Karl M. Cow- dery this year took over those of Academic Secretary, following the retirement of John E. McDowell last spring. The problems with which he must cope include the administration of students aid funds, graduate loans, and tuition notes. The problem of graduate housing must also be met, as well as incidental duties. TAKING OVER the position of secretary of the Alumni As- sociation on December I, when the resignation of Har- low P. Rothert became effec- tive, Robert A. Bones Ham- ilton, three times member of the famous Vowing Sophs football team, now has the task of making an organized whole of the vast group of Stanford alumni. 13

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The sending and recording of card messages ;yrgeofis ( applying jratories ratoryis cootrols tmorisa jlieredi- The receiving and recording of the card messages. o psycHOioey RESEARCH ACTIVITIES of the Psychology Department range from the study of the abilities of children and adults to the activities of rats and the manifestations of so-called psychical phenomena. The Psychical Research Laboratory was established in 1912 through the generosity of Thomas Welton Stanford. Professor John Edgar Coover, who died last February, held the Fellowship in Psychical Research from 1912 continuously until his retirement in 1937. During this 25-year period of public service, Professor Coover conducted experiments on the nature of clairvoyance and telepathy, se- ance, phenomena, and sublimal cues for perception. The new Psychical Research Fellow is Dr. John L. Kennedy, who this year has been studying the claims for extra-sensory perception, based on card-guessing. He is also investigating electrical brain-waves by means of an elec- troencephalograph. 15