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Fowler's breaststroke events are scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Mahoney will compete in the one-metre springboard diving today and the three-metre spring-board on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Fowler, Mahoney to Enter Yale National Swim Championships | 3/26/1964 | See Source »

...taking patients for walks, organizing parties and baseball games, and taking groups on trips and picnics. The hospital does not have a staff large enough to take patients outdoors on these activities, and so depends on Summer School volunteers to "create a normal environment and activity program," frequently "a spring-board to a cure," William F. McLaughlin, Superintendent of the Hospital, claims...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. Asks 150 Volunteers For Mental Hospitals | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...patients. And even if we did, we still don't know the real answer to curing the patients. But if you create a normal environment and activity program--as the volunteers do--the patients respond. It is the beginning of getting their trust again, and often it is a spring-board to a cure...

Author: By Harvey J. Wachtel and John G. Wofford, S | Title: The Mentally Ill: 200 Student Volunteers . . . | 5/19/1955 | See Source »

...think it was a case where the dirty linen could only be cleaned by being washed in public; and I think the CRIMSON, instead of chiding the alumni group, should have given them all possible support. But, even more important, the issue should have been made a spring-board for a thorough airing of a system of university government which would tolerate the underpaying of a group of its most defenseless employees. The case should have been treated as a symptom of a condition, and the condition should have been carefully investigated...

Author: By Paul M. Sweezy, (FORMER INSTRUCTOR IN ECONOMICS, HARVARD.) | Title: Sweezy Favors Editorial Strength | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

Dispateches from Allied field headquarters said the battle for the spring-board to Europe had reached the "critical stage...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/2/1942 | See Source »

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