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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...medicine, and would offer an eminently useful and beneficent career to well-equipped young men who were willing to devote their lives to medical teaching, research, and practice in China. The institution was thought of both as a medical mission and a research laboratory. After consultation with several persons, conversant with the medical and missionary situation in China, the young men brought the matter to the attention of President Eliot, who laid the plan before a small group of gentlemen likely to be interested in the project and well fitted to be trustees for the proposed institution. These gentlemen thought...
...manure is removed daily by hand in open vessels. Inspection of food and water supplies is carried on only in the four or five cities where considerable numbers of foreigners live. Hygienic measures are unimagined in the typical Chinese home, except that drinking water is always boiled, and each person carries his own chopsticks. The food of the great majority of the people lacks variety and is often inadequate in amount. As a result of this lack of medical knowledge and of skill in sanitation, dangerous diseases rage uncontrolled. In certain
...tickets will be mailed not earlier than Monday morning, June 26. Checks and money orders should be made payable to the Harvard Athletic Association. Applications for one or two tickets will be given preference over those filed for a greater number, and no application will be received from any person whose name is on the blacklist. A stamped envelope and postal card, each addressed to the applicant, must accompany every application...
...have applied for tickets will be sent blank engraved invitations and envelopes before the end of the week so that they may direct them themselves. Every man will receive as many invitations as the number of tickets he applied for. Tickets cost $2.50 apiece and admit only one person to the dance. Men must provide tickets for themselves as well as for their ladies. The dance begins promptly at 8 o'clock and is over shortly after 12 o'clock. There will be twenty numbers on the program, so every one is urged to be on time. There will...
...business or employment which is not per se public in character may in the process of time affect public interest and so justifiably be subject to public control and regulation. The courts have always held that when any business or occupation does affect public interest, the person or corporation engaged in it must serve all alike and shall receive a fair and reasonable return for service rendered...