Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stillman is known to be a poorly planned infirmary. There is not one door in the entire building wide enough to permit the passage of a bed through it; furthermore the elevator is too small to accommodate even a cot. This simply means that the really sick patients are trapped in their beds in times of emergencies, and everyone is at all times generally inconvenienced. There is a crying need for more modern equipment. Although a large sum of money was spent last summer in various improvements, this appears to be only a stop-gap measure, and Stillman's facilities...
...surface at least, this parking-space appears to be the most practical and most convenient site for the new infirmary. The lot is University property and fully large enough. If the infirmary was erected here, all the health facilities of the University would be unified; no longer would sick patients have a discouraging trek from 15 Holyoke Street to Stillman. The new infirmary would be infinitely superior to the present one and would obviously contain an isolation ward and the latest medical equipment...
...follows: 150 medley relay Max Krans and ARt Boaworth; 100 backstroke, Boaworth and Craig Moore; 100 breastroke, Kraus and Phil Walker. The free-style positions will be held down by freddis Griffin, Eric Cutler, Ed Hewitt, Frank Powers, Johnny Quinlan, and any Stowells who can get off the sick list in time...
Such a situation actually came about in January two years ago, with a resulting mild epidemic of grippe, which overflowed the Infirmary and deprived almost thirty more sick students from receiving hospital care. In view of this danger, authorities at the Hygiene Building urge any ailing student, even if he has only a bad common cold, to remain at home until he feels better. Particularly for those traveling long distances, such infections can easily become serious en route to Cambridge. Students should realize that the responsibility for keeping well rests with them and not with their physicians. If they will...
Miss Thompson, retud journalist and columnist and the author of "The New Russia," "I Saw Hitler," and "Refugees," will leave a sick-bed to speak here, it was learned last night. Stage, screen, and radio comedian, Cantor numbers among his philanthropic projects the founding of the Eddie Cantor Camp Committee, which sends poor city boys to the country for two weeks vacation each summer...