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Nathan Dane 1778, a member of the Continental Congress. Dane drew up the Northwest Ordinance and was an early donor to the Law School...
...likely (a common example: removal of brain tumors). During such an operation the patient may go into deep shock. At this point an intravenous transfusion is normally given, but it is not always successful. One reason for the occasional failures, say Drs. Gardner and Hale, is that the donor blood, received through the veins, puts an added load on an already weakened heart...
There are other advantages, said Drs. Gardner and Hale: the patient's own blood is better for him than that of any donor, and blood pumped back into the body toward the heart through an artery, instead of a vein, puts no extra burden on the heart. Their reservoir setup, they said, "may be likened to an accessory heart...
Favorable comment on the new building came from football captain Phillip L. Isenberg '51 and track team head Geoffrey H. Tootell '51. Isenberg thought the new Varsity Club would "improve athletic spirit in the University," and Tootell said "It's a good thing. It was the donor's wish, and his wish must be honored...
Their special scholarship fund however, is at best a makeshift solution. If the University again begins to encourage acceptance of restricted funds, there would be no reason why scholarships could not be established for any group that the donor thought was being treated unjustly. Money that could be put to valuable use would again pour into funds for men named Murphy or South Boston Newsboys or residents of Greater Los Angeles. As long as there is no evidence that the University employs discriminatory practices in its admissions or scholarship policy, unrestricted funds and gifts are greatly preferable to bequests...