Science: Academicians at Rochester

It was too cold in upstate New York last week to go around without a heavy overcoat. In the University of Rochester's Strong Auditorium, although the inside temperature was comfortable, the audience felt sympathetically chilly when two scientists told how they had shivered in the interests of scientific research. The two were big Eugene F. DuBois of Cornell University Medical College and small James D. Hardy of the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology.

Drs. DuBois & Hardy had decided to find out more about the body's mechanisms for mitigating heat and cold—that is, to...

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