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...With the demand for gamma globulin already far greater than the supply, three Harvard investigators reported on another use for it: preventing the spread of infectious hepatitis (a liver infection causing jaundice). The Harvardmen studied 81 families where jaundice had broken out, found that the disease spread within the family 48% of the time when G.G. was not given. In families where G.G. was given preventively after the first outbreak, only one additional case turned...
...letter writer to the CRIMSON reopened the "Dirty Music" controversy about the band's action during the football games. Some complained that the Harvard band should form the letter of the opposing school and play its song. Delcevare King '95 in a letter called it an insult for Harvardmen to sing Yale songs when the Crimson was playing Holy Cross. The band's drum major, William M. Hickey, replied that the writer was "Wrong, wrong as anyone could be." He charged that the band had played a Holy Cross song during its march in, and had formed...
...picking its presidents, Harvard University abides by few conventional rules. Though it likes its candidates to be Harvardmen and scholars, it apparently cares little about how famous they may be. This week, to succeed James Bryant Conant, now U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, the Harvard Corporation picked a man who could boast even less national fame than Chemist Conant had when he got the job. Harvard's new president, the 28th in a line dating back more than 300 years, is Nathan Marsh Pusey, class of '28, now head of small (800 students) Lawrence College in Appleton...
...Then two Harvardmen showed up one morning last week at the headquarters...
...weird, heron-like copper bird he was getting. "Tell me, what does it symbolize?" he asked. "Oh," replied the Harvardmen, "it's a sort of American peace dove." "Well," said Tsarapkin, "it is a very fine gift. Peace be with you and yours...