Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Gray Sears: A physician who has done a memorable public work in promoting the mutual helpfulness of medical school and hospital...
...Bratt, a practicing physician and an authority on social hygiene, secured the establishment of a liquor monopoly financed by private capital, empowered to dispense all alcoholic fluids except light beers, and permitted to dispose of such fluids only under a permit system based upon the status of each purchaser-the head of a family to be sold not more than a gallon of "hard liquors" a month, single women not more than a gallon a year, restaurants an amount proportionate to their proven sales of food. To the Swede who dines in restaurants there may be brought unlimited "hard liquors...
...Habaña filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
Worn by his tropical work, Dr. Reed died following an operation, and the government has named the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington in honor of the physician who "gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever...
Among the distinguished guests who will attend the dinner are Maynard Ladd '94, a Boston physician, who was President of the CRIMSON while in college; Nicholas Kelley '06, formerly Assistant Secretary of Treasury, and also President of the CRIMSON as an undergraduate, Professor J. H. Woods '87, of the Philosophy Department; Dean C. N. Greenough '98; and assistant Deans R. E. Bacon '18, Ellio Perkins '21, and E. A. Whitney '17. The latter is also a CRIMSON man and was President of the paper in his Senior year...