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BREATH-WEIGHING TEST WILL AMUSE SYMPOSIUM AUDIENCE

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How much does your breath weigh? Professor A. G. McAdie '85 proposes to determine the weight of the collective breadth of everyone attending the Symposium at the Union March 4. When questioned by a CRIMSON reporter, Professor McAdie explained that his method would be to determine, by the use of delicate weighing instruments, the relative humidity of the atmosphere before the lecture and after the room had been occupied for several minutes.

"There's really nothing much to it," he added. "I intend merely to weigh the water vapor which is present in every breath we exhale. It's the same vapor that we see on a cold day."

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