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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Stubbs was reticent last night about commenting on the men he was going to send out for the opening whistle. He did state however that there would be only 16 out of the 23 members of the squad on hand. Coach Stubbs also stated that no fixed combinations had been tried out at yesterday's practice which was of short duration...
Infantile paralysis is slowly being eradicated from Massachusetts, according to figures compiled by the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission. In the 1928 epidemic the Commission, assisted by the State Department of Health, treated some 25 percent of the 500 cases in the pre-paralytic stage, compared with but 10 percent of 1200 cases so treated...
...summer epidemics the Commission goes throughout the state giving serum to the sufferers, while in the off season research is conducted at the Harvard Medical School. It is a very difficult disease to work with, as it is transmitted by invisible bacteria, so small that they pass through the finest filters. Monkeys are the only animals that take the disease, so they and convalescing patients afford the only possible sources of a serum cure...
...wish to add to what Henry Flury of Washington, D. C., has to say regarding G. W. P. Hunt: long time governor of Arizona. 'Unique' indeed is a public speaker, let alone a state executive who deliberately picks his nose while on the public platform. In fact unique is no word for it. 'A great humanitarian who never signed a Death Warrant' but Commitments to the Insane Asylum instead, where ex-condemned on escaping would return on their own volition because the "grub" was so good. 'The State Prison was transformed from a place...
...regulation undoubtedly will be passed by the Student Council for future committees. I sincerely hope that this year's difficulty is now closed and should like to state that I am not in sympathy with any attempts to continue the matter further. Robert Reinhart...