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...gifts Harvard has received have been unrestricted grants which the University may use as it sees fit. Moreover, the percentage of such gifts shows a declining trend. This is in spite of the fact that many of President Conant's speeches and reports have echoed eloquently the plea for fluid funds. Either because Harvard's benefactors are of an unimpressionable nature, or because they fail to read the President's speeches, the University finds itself tied and thwarted on every hand, with its efficiency gravely impaired...
More cogent an argument is the necessity for fluid funds if the University is to play its rightful part in the advance of education and learning. Unhampered as they are by dependence on the grants of penny-wise legislatures, endowed institutions are better fitted to experiment and introduce educational innovations than their public counterparts. Significant experiments such as the tutorial system or the National Scholarship plan could never have originated in state universities, subject as they are to budget-balancing governors. Moreover, only an institution like Harvard is capable of extensively promoting research of a non-utilitarian character, the ultimate...
Instead of introducing drugs into the fluid of the spinal canal, and affecting the entire circulatory and nervous systems, the anesthetists filled the empty epidural space at the base of the spine (between the inner wall of the spinal column and the sheath of the spinal cord) with 30-60 cubic centimeters of distilled water solutions of pantocain. metycaine, intracaine or other similar local anesthetics...
...contrary, Berlin was becoming alarmed lest Poland and Hungary succeed between them in grabbing the eastern end of Czechoslovakia and fortifying it as a bulwark against the ultimately scheduled German push to the East. The whole Munich settlement situation in Czechoslovakia was fluid. Ancient nationality claims and feuds boiled up anew somewhere almost every hour in this tough corner of Eastern Europe where every little old people is supertough. So far as Germany was concerned, chances favored mutual agreement to abandon the holding of plebiscites in the area sketched at Munich and direct occupation by Nazidom of substantially that which...
...Wilson invented the cloud chamber. This device makes visible the fantastically rapid paths, straight, curved, or broken, of electrons and other subatomic particles. The cloud chamber contains water vapor or other fluid vapor which, suddenly expanded by a piston, condenses along the particle paths in fog droplets that show up in photographs as white streaks...