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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a successful measles vaccine was announced by Drs. Joseph Stokes Jr. of U. of Pa.'s medical school and Geoffrey William Rake of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. They obtain active virus from the blood or throat washings of measly moppets, treat this material with ether or by filtering to remove bacteria, pass it into chicken eggshells through a small hole made with a dentist's drill, inject it into the chick embryo's outer membrane. After allowing four or five days for the virus to propagate, they open the eggs, remove the membrane...
Some city councillors in 1938 made every attempt to sabotage the proposal for a new charter and to prevent it from being placed before the voters. At one time the Plan E Committee had to obtain a special order from the courts before the Council would take the necessary steps to permit the people of Cambridge to vote on the city manager form of government...
When in past years many current numbers of the less used magazines were filed in the stacks, students had to obtain stack permission or write out call cards at the delivery desk in order to obtain them...
Calm and reasoned argument, replete with facts and figures, seasons the pages of opinions and accordingly the views expressed will obtain a much more favorable hearing than had they been clad in the devil-angel garb which not infrequently characterizes "magazines with a bias...
Under the new system secretaries of clubs and fraternities will not be permitted to apply for blocks of seats, but members of clubs, like any other group of students, may obtain groups of season tickets by applying for their contribution books together. All applications for contribution books must be made in person...