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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past, we have been prone to criticize the preceding senior class on many grounds--chiefly their general lack of morale, their marching--now we will have to be on guard lest we, too, evidence these same shortcomings...
From England last week came word that British naval surgeons think they have a better method of artificial respiration than the familiar Schafer prone pressure method...
When a drowning seaman is brought out of the sea, he is immediately bound (either supine or prone) on a stretcher by gentle wrist and ankle bandages. The stretcher is placed upon a fulcrum, such as a sawhorse, if handy; if not, in a simple loop of rope secured overhead. Rocking is started, head and feet alternately down about 50 degrees, a complete seesaw every four or five seconds. British Surgeon Lieut. G. H. Gibbens suggests in the British Medical Journal: "It helps some people if they hum a tango or a slow tune, moving the stretcher at the beginning...
...throated tree frog becomes the signaling of infiltrating Japs. Pebbles falling from the edge of the foxhole on your helmet may be thrown by Japanese trying to taunt you into showing a silhouette. Such things sound fantastic to outsiders, but they are real and existent to some soldiers. Soldiers prone to panic are quickly weeded...
...basketball strings, managerially speaking, adopt a middle-of-the-road attitude. Eckert sometimes has semi-fanatical tendencies, being a hoopster of no mean proportions himself, and has been known at times to grow irate when his worthies have been blasphemed by local college journals, but Dick is more prone to tend efficiently to his duties, as is Harry. And God help the opposing manager who tries to jockey with the time clock. When the Harvard five went out west this winter, it was Eckert who wrote the stories for local papers. Dress, for these men, is informal...