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Once we are compelled to recognize Harvard's venerable past and accept it as such, we must then look at its present. Do we choose the approach of Harvard's faculty and allow inertia to paralyze our minds and our motivation, or do we discard the indulgence of self-admiration that seems to grip the University today...
...process of testing first in animals, then in small groups of humans, and finally in larger groups. There was no time to study long-term effects; the government recommended the vaccine to pregnant women, for instance, after less than nine months of testing. Parke-Davis manufactured and had to discard over 1.5 million defective doses of vaccine; Americans were lucky that the program led to nothing more serious than several hundred cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome...
...each in his own little cubicle, and almost always at 4 in the morning--Peter and I now retire to the dubious pleasures of writing our senior theses, leaving these pages to the ministrations of our junior partner (the new "DeWitt"). Before we do, however, we thought we would discard our collective identity and unveil our private obsessions about movies. Ordinarily we might produce the standard lists of the year's 10 best films. But since we found it extremely difficult to name ten good movies from last year, decided to present two different lines on the ten best films...
...unintimidated. "We are looking at a variety of reorganization programs," says he. "There were a whole raft of programs in the '60s followed by eight years when there was no attempt to work with any degree of compassion. We'll take the best of those programs and discard the worst." Making those choices should keep Califano busy for quite some time...
...test will retain an overall achievement section in biology, chemistry and physics as the third section but will discard the general information section, he added...