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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each volunteer goes to the hospital only once a week, but the larger ratio of volunteers to patients makes it possible for students to lead activities six afternoons and three evenings every week. This relatively close contact with the children makes the volunteers of considerable help to the doctors and nurses, who rely heavily on the students' written reports and frequent special discussion meetings...
Although 61 percent of the College contributed this year as compared with 54.8 percent in 1954, this year's drive actually collected less undergraduate money. The larger total was due to funds that the Combined Charities committee collected directly from the graduate schools, which had formerly contributed to separate drives...
...abroad to promote peace. Almost $20 million was spent in Asia to develop the educational and economic institutions needed to put democracy on a firm basis. In Asia, the Foundation has experimented with indigenous agricultural and technical procedures which, if successful, can be applied to a nation on a larger scale. Equal emphasis has been placed on training leaders and technicians who can disseminate these new methods and ideas...
Monday. The week began with widespread confidence that the Salk vaccine, excepting possibly some of the Cutter product, was safe and that the real problem was to get enough of it to the right places at the right time. Thus the question of controls loomed larger than that of the vaccine's overall safety. Members of Congress drafted bills providing for compulsory federal controls. But Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby's advisory committee on vaccine distribution adopted a report urging only voluntary controls, relying on "health patriotism." It became increasingly clear that no one in Washington, even...
...Larger suites in the various Houses are being considered for possible occupancy next fall by students not previously assigned to rooms. The plan would be operated on a voluntary basis, with occupants of the rooms choosing whether to take in additional students...