Word: safe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, be argued that concentration does not begin in earnest until the sophomore year anyway, and that the freshman has plenty of time to look around, himself, before commencing. As a matter of fact, this theory of the drifting freshman coming to a safe mooring by his second year is both dangerous and fallacious. It is fallacious because nineteenths of the first-year men have no more real understanding of the purposes and potentialities of a Harvard education in June than, they had in September. It is dangerous because it may involve an irreparable loss of time and the self...
...Forbidden to speak to passing caravans. Forbidden to buy foodstuffs from population. Money and medicines came to an end. The presence of three women in caravan and medical certificate about heart weakness not taken into consideration. On March 4 expedition started southward. All nine European members of-the expedition safe. Many scientific results after four years' travel...
This experiment was many times repeated. Finally it was deemed safe for humans. French and Belgian physicians collaborated to inoculate the newborn, particularly those with tuberculous antecedents. Thousands of babies have been shot with B. C. G. in the last five years, and their progress carefully watched. Many of them were born and raised in a tuberculous environment, nursed by tuberculous mothers. Mortality has been cut down from the old average of 26% during the first year to 1%. The immunity so far has lasted four years and there were no deaths reported during that time. The vaccination itself...
...them into contact, with Harvard man and Harvard laden. Arrived in Cambridge they may feel slightly bewildered, sometimes lost. In an atmosphere essentially strange to their past experlonee. Acclimatization to Harvard life will inevitably come of itself, especially since Harvard demands no conformity to specific standards, but it is safe to say that numerous students go through their entire four years of college without penetrating beneath the surface of that great store of past, achievements, personalities, incidents, and ideas which make up the body of what may be called Harvard tradition...
...Cunningham '29, on the mound for the Seconds, limited the opposing batters to six safe hits. Although none of them fanned, they were, for the most part, unable to knock his offerings out of the infield...