Reflex Action in the Earthworm, as a Typical Example of the Annelids

This 18 page thesis discusses the anatomy of the earthworm and importance of reflex actions, including responses to various stimuli and the role of the nerve cord

The Ursinus Weekly, October 30, 1939

25,000 see bears fall fighting before Army avalanche, 46-13 • Juniors to discuss yearbook change • Hallowe\u27en party this Friday night • Philip announces oratorio soloists • Soph hayride • Fireside chats planned for Wednesday evening • Rhodes scholarships discontinued by war • Mrs. Baker on campus for music clinic and vocal lessons • Y social service committee to sponsor Philadelphia trip • Rollin Lawrence to speak at vespers service on Sunday • Ursinus and Swarthmore to meet in radio debate Sunday • Make-up experts to speak to women\u27s mass meeting • Bonos elected president of history-social science group • Cycle discussions planned for future IRC meetings • Carter, Miller at conference of Penna. historical assn. • Valerie Green \u2740 elected president of Manuscript Club • Interdorm football nears close finish • Booters down F. & M., bow to Haverford, 3-0 • Temple hockey team downs Ursinus co-eds in close gamehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1824/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, April 17, 1939

Gymnasium to be transformed into rainbow room at prom • Three hundred people attend YM-YW fine arts-fine living conference • Collegeville community club to give Schumann matinee • Ursinus represented at model league assembly • No danger of war, Willauer asserts • New York world\u27s fair offers student prices • Kenneth Snyder elected editor-in-chief of Lantern • Miss Helen Lyon will speak at Y program • Tulip town to present picture of Dutch life • Philip, Wilcox receive honors during week • Co-ed tennis squad to open season April 24 with Rosemont • Bear batsmen drop pair of games to Temple and Bucknell • Varsity Club banquets; Atkinson new president • Hashagen drills thirty-two cinder aspirants for first meet Saturday • President McClure to address Philadelphia alumni association • Stahl brothers will display exhibit of pottery on April 26 • Ursinus students to attend government conferencehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1867/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, October 23, 1939

Musical organizations to sing The Messiah on December 7 • Frosh dine, dance at Spring Mountain • Muhlenberg eleven overwhelms bears • Seniors plan play with Curtain Club • Theme, new features planned for 1940 Ruby • College collects cuts ; library in Bomberger • Rev. Finnie speaks to large crowd at Y vespers service • Hallowe\u27en party will be held in gym Nov.3 • Len Mayfair plays for 150 couples at old timers\u27 dance • Student body eats doggies and then cheers at pep rally • Modern language group to hold party in rec center tonight • Forencists will debate two topics this year • Elm tree in front of library hit by lightning Saturday • Curtis and Glenwood share honors in Saturday\u27s parade • Library clock is copy of Big Ben • Dr. Mauchly addresses physicists\u27 conference • Women\u27s debate club holds meeting; decides on topic • Campus trees have background as well as beauty • I.N.A. convention to be held at Bucknell University Nov. 10-11 • Neutrality debate by Hyde and Blum at IRC meeting Tuesday • English Club will hear review of The Hudson at meeting • Hall Chemical Society will show picture on petroleum • Powerful Muhlenberg eleven overwhelms grizzly gridders • Intramural football off to flying start • Ursinus grid feat in Chicago paper • J.V. football team beats Farm School • Hockeyites beat grads, lose to Swarthmore • Bears step out of class to meet Army next Saturday • Soccer game with Dickinson cancelled; F. and M. next foe • Edwards takes moving pictures of Ursinus games this seasonhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1823/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, November 22, 1937

Curtain Club places second in Philo competition • Cooper describes Eastern Pen to Y\u27s • Howard Gale and big-hearted Herbert take stage on alternate nights • English-U.S. relations next forum topic • Next speaker on Burma • Lewis and Padden are student members of college athletic council • Twenty new reporters added to Weekly staff • New ruling, internal disorder, cancels prison trip • 12-6 victory hands dorm crown to Brodbeck gang • Sophs prevail over yearlings, 6-0, in series revival • Bear booters deadlock Delaware 3-3 • Co-eds drop finale to Beaver, 2-0 • P.M.C. turkey day tilt last for 5 seniorshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1883/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, January 8, 1940

Byrne and McAllister to head junior week-end committees • Hon. J. William Ditter to speak on Founders\u27 Day, February 15 • Lorelei on Feb. 16; Harshaw chairman • Besse Howard will lead quiz forum • Apes win fraternity scholarship plaque • Dr. Francis Green at vespers Sunday • Dickinson law dean to speak to pre-legalites • Fred Wrigley to return for dance on Saturday • Mr. Sheeder lauds Christmas \u27Lantern\u27 • College students think that United States can stay out of conflict, survey shows • Fraternity rushing rules • Skyrocket to fame tells story of singer Jan Peerce\u27s career • Science building is outstanding change on Ursinus landscape in last decade • Dr. Meminger honored by new autumn Alumni Journal • Grizzly five tramples Albright in conference opener; loses to Rutgers in first game before holidays, 60-55 • Stevens optimistic as proteges drill • Albright freshmen top bear yearlings, 55-36 • Biery on Delaware all-opponents • Play ball, America! to be shown on Thursday • Bears meet Muhlenberg, Gettysburg this week • Barnard, Carter at conventions during holidays • Prof. Sheeder lists religious qualities at vespers service • Morris represents Ursinus at Canadian Christian conference • Brownback speaks to men\u27s faculty club at Tues. meeting • Hall Chemical Society will show film, Sincerely yours • Bone to speak to men\u27s Debate Club in Freeland Hall tonight • Borrell and Seibert represent college in Penn State debatehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1831/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, April 25, 1938

Coeds choose Lees, Poling, Claflin leaders • Harrisburg group hears Ade, Toll at conclave • Dictators main peace threat say conference leaders • Plays Saturday night week-end feature • May sports hop makes lucky Friday 13 • Wimer new YM head; appoints cabinet • Alumnus develops Sweden in Forefathers address • Stoudt, Craigie to play leads in First lady • Girls hear vocation charts by career women • Embryo lawyers discuss organization of club • Mikado again in rehearsal • Temple leads • Charm, attractiveness, especially a mysterious allurement • Musical variety features club\u27s Easter program • Pre-meds to hear Dr. Eger at next week\u27s meeting • Clawson addresses Berks County math club • Sheeder, Old, Ursinus visit Lansdale, Camden schools • Batsmen beat Lehigh, but lose to Lafayette • Stine close victory in intramural tourney • Cindermen place third in meet at Drexel • Ware\u27s racketeers down Bryn Mawr Sat. 3-2 • \u27Sinus second college in U.S. with cricket team • Hill defeats bear J.V.s 9-5; meet Villanova today • Musical organizations hold concert in Bomberger • Witmer addresses faculty club at April meeting • Frosh parade makes College Humor • Women end forensic season • Baird, Martin, DeWire to enter graduate schools • Biology students spend week-end in New York • Ursinus line coach to wed during football seasonhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1897/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, December 11, 1939

Communion and party in gym will feature Christmas week • Snyder plans new Lantern make-up • Messiah pleases capacity audience • Wood to head interfraternity-sorority dance on January 13 • McClures to entertain women tonight and tomorrow evening • 13 members added to Weekly staff • Sr. play portrays conflicts of Irish Catholicism • Senior ball draws 140 couples to dance to Gordon\u27s orchestra • Russo-Finnish conflict to be discussed by Herber at IRC • Pres. McClure will speak to Brotherhood at meeting Tuesday • Students reveal opinion on editorial comments • First I.R.C. Quarterly under Yoh released • Student poll describes ideal Ursinus professor • Veteran five ready to open season against Rutgers at New Brunswick Saturday; Chern, Keehn will swap posts • Co-ed basketeers down Rosemont in exhibition • The fall seasons in review: football and soccer • Frosh court candidates begin practice tonight • Collection of Madonnas is exhibited in libraryhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1830/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, May 16, 1938

College to confer two honorary degrees • Y\u27s invite students, profs to spring doggie roast • Loan fund established by Varsity Club • 110 couples dance Friday at May sports hop • Stoudt, Plunkett star in Mother\u27s Day play; pageant, dinner other Saturday activities • Glatfelter chosen to head men\u27s council • Ursinus gains victory over Penn on radio • McClure, Poling speak at two Sunday vespers • June issue of Lantern to feature commencement • Presenting the \u27sinus senior: a preview of the 1938 Ruby questionnaire • Works of contemporary Philadelphia painters displayed in exhibit • Bears trim Albright, Gettysburg in league tilts • Trackmen poor fifth in Lancaster meet • Records broken as school trackmen meet here • Peg Claflin installed as new WAA head • Power leads batsmen • Todt succeeds Bodley as Varsity Club leader • Curtain clubbers dine and dance in Norristown • Power elected president of pre-legal society • Laucks conducts current events quiz of IRC • Germantown boy awarded sixth open scholarshiphttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1900/thumbnail.jp

Reduced preference for social rewards in a novel tablet based task in young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Atypical responsivity to social rewards has been observed in young children with or at risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). These observations contributed to the hypothesis of reduced social motivation in ASD. In the current study we develop a novel task to test social reward preference using a tablet computer (iPad), where two differently coloured buttons were associated with a social and a nonsocial rewarding image respectively. 63 young children, aged 14–68 months, with and without a diagnosis of ASD took part in the study. The experimental sessions were also recorded on video, using an in-built webcam on the tablet as well as an external camera. Children with ASD were found to show a reduced relative preference for social rewards, indexed by a lower proportion of touches for the button associated with the social reward image. Greater social preference as measured using the tablet-based task was associated with increased use of social communicative behaviour such as eye contact with the experimenter and social smile in response to the social reward image. These results are consistent with earlier findings from eye-tracking studies, and provide novel empirical insights into atypical social reward responsivity in ASD