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This Week in Princeton University History for November 2-8
by April C. Armstrong *14 In this week’s installment of our recurring series, a new library collection is dedicated, student voting rights are still in question, and more. November 2, 1979—The Miriam Y. Holden Collection on the History of Women is dedicated in a small private ceremony in the Holden Room of Firestone Library. General…
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The Cat Telephone
By Arthur Kim ’18 What do a cat and a telephone have in common? They were the same thing in an experiment conducted in 1929 by Professor Ernest Glen Wever and his research assistant Charles William Bray here at Princeton University. Wever and Bray took an unconscious, but alive, cat and transformed it into a…
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