Word: contagion
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...Junior Fellows from becoming a group of intellectual snobs impregnated with too elevated an opinion of their own importance. These men are to be brought here for "their promise of notable contribution to knowledge and thought," and in order to "create and atmosphere that will carry intellectual contagion beyond anything now in this country." They are intended to lay a new path to the future, not to be satisfied with the present...
...better judgement. It is obviously not equipped to do all that it undertakes. The ideal solution of the problem is the construction of an adequate University hospital, staffed with a resident physician, and provided with a sufficient number of private rooms and proper facilities for the care of contagion. At present such a building is but a dream awaiting the wand of another Harkness to make it a reality. Until that wand is applied, Stillman should be restored to its original status, and arrangements made with Cambridge General Hospital, or the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for the care of operative...
Cases were so radically distributed in social strata (a nun, a baker, a one-day-old child, a medical student), in type of employment and geographical location that both contagion and food-poisoning seemed ruled...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard has spoken of "separating future creative scholars into a distinct body. . . . Such an atmosphere should carry intellectual contagion beyond anything now in this country.'' Dr. Lowell has also referred often to "the stranglehold of the Ph. D." on education. To loosen it at Harvard he announced last week a "Society of Fellows -24 young men who will spend three years in comfortable study, free of any academic regulation and lured by no prospect of credits or degrees. Graduates of any college, aged 25 or younger, they will be known as "Junior Prize Fellows...
...that this shall go forward than that the courts be filled with liberal judges. It is fortunate that he has chosen to stay at Harvard and continue to participate in this fascinating process. New generations of Harvard students should be even more grateful for the chance to risk the contagion of his restless, inquisitive mind and perhaps acquire some of his passionate concern for human problems...