Word: blood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard community might be amused by the following. I appeared yesterday (12/4?69) at Memorial Hall to attempt to donate blood. After the initial formalities, I was asked a number of questions about my medical history, including whether I had ever taken any drugs. I naively answered yes-in connection with illnesses. The nurse said, no, she meant marijuana or L. S. D. Well, I said, of course I've smoked occasionally-but not very often. The last time? About two weeks ago. She disappeared behind a curtain and returned to say that on doctor's orders. I was permanently...
...questioned the rationality of this policy and, in reply, was asked whether I would want my mother, near death in a hospital, to be given a marijuana smoker's blood. I asked to see the doctor and was referred instead to the head nurse, who said the doctor was busy at her lunch...
Nims set the goal for the Spring drive in April at 2,000 pints of blood. Each of the semi-annual drives last year netted 740 pints...
Nims attributed the success of this fall's drive to the involvement of the Harvard Undergraduate Council, the Vietnam Moratorium Committee. the University Health Services and the publicity campaigns of the Harvard CRIMSON and Independent. He said the Red Cross's lowering of the age for giving blood without parental permission from 21 to 18 was probably the most important factor...
...doesn't Harvard play a man short to make things even?" one spectator asked During the second period, it did. Near the ten-minute mark. Paul went off for drawing blood, a five-minute infraction and moments later, a second Harvard skater joined...