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Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, in commenting to the CRIMSON on these proposals, emphasized the fact that there are vast numbers of persons in the United States who at the present time do not receive adequate medical care chiefly because they cannot afford it, despite the work now done by private and public institutions. At the same time there are many doctors who have not enough work to make a satisfactory living. If these doctors could be put to work at supplying the existing needs of the "medically indigent" through the use of governmental funds, benefit...
...thorough and piercing investigation be made into the whole matter. That investigation has been made, and it has been made through the agency requested by these undergraduates--namely, the Student Council. In a comprehensive report made public last night, the Student Council justified, upheld, and completely absolved Professor Cannon and those who solicited funds for the ambulance of any taint of false pretenses...
...deeply regretted that Hart and Curtiss have seen fit to add to their atack on Professor Cannon this tirade against their chosen arbitrator. Student sentiments are far more inclined to trust the judgment of a body which represents the thought of the College in preference to the fantastic mudslinging of two irreconcilable. The Council, and this in accord with the great majority of the College, has spoken only after a minute examination of the problem. The matter, therefore, is closed. Let it fall to the unknelled tomb it so rightfully deserves...
...report of the Council can best be explained by one fact. The members of the committee were nominated by a man who was a member of the very organization that raised the money for the ambulance. He has had a chance to admit his affiliations with Dr. Cannon. He has not done so, perhaps believing that we were ignorant and would remain ever so, of his activities. At any rate, he nominated a committee to investigate his own activities. Under such circumstances, the report is all that one can expect...
...This much is true: If somebody abstains from building a house, he can use the steel thus saved for casting cannon. But it is impossible to produce one single cannon from bank notes, for bank notes are paper and a cannon consists of steel...