Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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

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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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Photometer, in the Illumination Laboratory, measuring light output of electric lights. STANFORD STUDENTS who plan to become electrical engineers enjoy the privilege of working in well-equipped laboratories under instructors who have a national reputation. For those interested in the field of elec- tric power, Stanford offers, in addition to the usual training in fundamental principles, an opportunity to work in the famous Ryan High-Voltage Labo- ratory. This is provided with transformers capable of developing a peak potential of 3,000,000 volts and is duplicated by no other university in the world. During the last few decades the field of communication has become one of the major divisions of the electrical industry. Again in this field, Stanford students work in a laboratory that attracts graduates from universities all over the country. For those inter- ested in the growing field of illumination, the Electrical Engineering Department offers a thorough training in the fundamental principles of the subject, supplemented by an oppor- tunity to make practical measurements of light sources and their effectiveness in the illum- ination Laboratory. To meet the growing need for business as well as technical training, a course is now offered graduate students in cooperation with the Graduate School of Business, which combines business with engineering. 16 A Cathode Ray Oscillograph in the Ryan Laboratory.