Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David C. Poskanzer--Lowell House; NSA delegate; member, Student Council; chairman, Special Committee on Tutorial, vice-chairman, committees on Education, Finance, Extracuricular Activities, SAC; Freshman swimming; House athletics...
...says Miss Gardner in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics. Like most people in the Middle Ages, he ate too much in summer and too little in winter; that, plus lack of sanitary arrangements in his castle, helped produce constipation in a colon already sluggish. He got fat, a diverticulum or sac developed in the colon, and the sac became inflamed...
Then, during the pillage of Mantes, William's horse, stumbled and threw him against the pommel of the saddle. That did it. The injured sac became gangrenous and William, at 59 an old man by medieval standards, could not combat the infection. At last the sac ruptured, Miss Gardner believes, and peritonitis developed. One consolation: even if William's doctors had known what was the matter with him, they wouldn't have known what to do; they had no sulfonamide drugs and no techniques for abdominal surgery...
...whole set-up jibes perfectly with the ideal conception of SAC. In the paychology section alone are 40 offices neatly lined along the long corridors. Fifteen rooms are large enough for such clubs as the World Fedoralists to hold all their meetings. Three could support Liberal Union parloys, while at least one could accommodate over 100 persons...
...larger western section is far neater and better adapted for SAC. Two parallel corridors run the length of the floor and are joined at each end in the center by shorter crossways, thus forming a squarish figure...