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Interhouse athletics are an important part of the House scene and are described fully in an appendix to this report written by Robert Claflin '50. But this committee feels strongly that the present interhouse athletic setup is working remarkably well without any noticeable Council supervision or intervention...
...discussion of the Interhouse Committee and the several houses, with related recommendations, will be found in the appendix. But recommendations relevant to the Council follow...
...patients, Dr. Boyce gives time-honored advice: go to the doctor as soon as appendicitis is suspected. Above all. do not take a laxative; it may cause a disastrous rupture of the appendix. For doctors, Dr. Boyce also has a suggestion: tell patients in advance what to do if they think they have appendicitis. For keepers of vital statistics, he has this criticism: don't lump together all deaths from appendicitis, whether caused by the chronic or the acute form of the disease. This obscures the seriousness of the acute form, he says, which, with its complications, actually causes...
Like all researchers before him, Dr. Boyce is at a loss to explain why man is born with an appendix. It serves no known purpose. But he has gathered a lot of odd facts about the useless, troublesome appendage...
...appendix, popularly believed to be on the right side, is sometimes found on the left...