Word: blood
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...California and New Mexico avails to keep uppermost in our minds the questions of national honor that we were all willing--or were we willing?--to die for two weeks ago. The human interest of football is unquestioned and unquestionable. It was ever thus among people who had sporting blood in their veins. There were many people in ancient Greece whose patriotism did not prevent them from deeply resenting the intrusion of Leonidas and his battle of Thermopylae into the year 480 B. C., which was one of the years scheduled for the Olympian games. They regarded that...
While Harvard and Princeton are battling for victory today, Cambridge and Oxford are fighting Heidelberg. We settle our contest on a grassy field surrounded by enthusiastic, happy people; they are struggling in blood-stained trenches, haggard and worn, awaiting death. Between the halves of the game a collection will be taken up for the Harvard Surgical Unit, whose members are going across the water to alleviate the sufferings of university men engaged in a more serious struggle. If all stop to think what purpose their contributions will serve, the amount of the collection cannot help being worthy of the throng...
...first week's efforts of the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Committee contains the following account of the work: "In the first week since the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission was established, the commission has assisted in the diagnosis and treatment of 20 cases of Infantile paralysis. The serum obtained from the blood of those who have recovered from the disease in the past has been given in 14 cases. Of these, two who have been ill for some time died, four were paralyzed before the serum was given, and of the remaining eight who were given serum in the earliest stages...
...More serum is urgently needed if the Commission is to respond to all the demands made upon it. In the first week 15 persons have volunteered and permitted the required amount of blood to be taken from them by a process which is without the slightest danger. The Commission will gladly pay the traveling expenses of those who wish to volunteer and will come to the Medical School...
...Alumni Assistant in Medicine, Don Lorenzo Stevens as Assistant in Public Utilities Operation, Andrew Watson Sellards '05 as Associate in Tropical Medicine, Varaztad Hohannes Kazanjian '05 as Demonstrator in Prosthetic Dentistry, James Bryant Conant '14 as Instructor in Chemistry, Harlan True Stetson as Instructor in Astronomy, William Henry Blood as Lecturer on Public Utilities Operation, Henry Maurice Sheffer '05 as Lecturer on Philosophy, Leon Dupriez as Visiting Lecturer on Government, Morris Gray as Secretary of Employment, Edward Deshon Brandegee '81 as Regent, Francis Welles Hunnewell '02 as Secretary to the Corporation, Roger Pierce '04 as Secretary to the Corporation, Clarence...