Word: mays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...child was almost dead at birth. Other children's hospitals have switched to female donors for this type of exchange transfusion and are building up higher columns of hopeful figures. Dr. Diamond, though he still has no idea what the protective substance in a woman's blood may be, is looking for ways to use it in other children's diseases...
Mixing blood with different Rh characteristics may have harmful after-effects extending far beyond infant anemia, the University of Pennsylvania announced this week. Trying to get at the cause of hearing defects in 50 children suffering from a type of cerebral palsy, researchers in the Audiology Section found that every one of the afflicted children was the product of a mixed Rh ancestry. Now the researchers are checking on other hearing defects, not connected with cerebral palsy, to see whether Rh incompatibility is also the villain...
Pledge cards, with which students may allocate percentages of their donations to seven specific charities, will be used again this year. Although national organizations are not stressed, the donor may write in any charity of his own choosing. While the Student Council is supposed to receive 20 per cent of all allocated money for its own use, the student is allowed to request that none of his donation go to the Council...
...Harvard trains "whole men" it is necessary to know what such men are and it will be difficult to arrive at any definition which will not either outrage the convictions of a segment of the student body or else be so abstract as to be meaningless. Furthermore, it may be even harder to draw the line between the effects attributable to a Harvard education and the mere continuation of personality traits which have formed in a person before college. When we look at a Harvard graduate, how are we to know--even with the help of self-evaluation--whether...
Still, this means little to the undergraduate who is forced to get his date out of his room--and in many Houses the building too--by 8 p.m. even on weekend evenings, and who cannot hold parties in his room after that hour. He may realize that the protection of his guests' reputation is a factor in the College's rulings, or that an out-of-hand party can be just as disturbing to other House residents as to the College. But he does not see why one particular hour is the magic dividing line between right and wrong...