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...Children's Medical Center, run by the University, is the nucleus of these activities. Several wards in the hospital are devoted to polio victims. During polio epidemics, one-third of the state's immobilized cases are cared for there, and more than two-thirds come in regularly for treatment and exercise...
From these groups a steering committee of five persons will form the nucleus of an investigating committee; their final report will go to the Council and the administration...
...contrast with the Crimson, which is built mainly around a nucleus of voterans, Princeton relies on untried men. Of the 15 men Coach Dick Vaughan will dress for the game, eight are sophomores...
What we need is a "league for reaction," composed of teams that want to stay out of the commercial race. It could have an Ivy League nucleus of four or five teams, and could absorb colleges in any part of the country that wanted to stick to amateur standards. It would be a league of principle, not price, and would give its members the opportunity for a varied and reasonable schedule...
...There is a possibility," Phelps said, "That this Poets' Theater could be the nucleus of a permanent adjunct to the American stage. We are starting on a small scale, and as we learn, the productions will become more polished, and they will also become more elaborate...