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Freshman hopes sank last week when first-string goalie Phil Clark landed in Stillman Infirmary with mononucleosis and high-scorer Jack Carmen moved up to the Varsity...
...last night, Stillman Infirmary had only two casuaties to report. A pair of students who broke down during one of their tests were rushed to hospital beds and kept incommunicado "until they were able to think clearly again...
...threshold of another disastrous flu pandemic," adding with grim fortitude that "the storm signals are flying." And though it is galling to do so, admitted it must be that now, a year later, Harvard is healthier than ever. The editorial decried "pointing with pride at the empty beds in Stillman," but today let us point at them with pride, and commiserate only those suffering from an overdose of benzedrine...
This year the Hygiene Department reports a lower number of exam-time casualties than it can over remember. Flu is almost absent, and though the danger of an epidemic or a pandemic is always there, that is hardly the point. It seems that for some reason Stillman always has its greatest influx of customers during the last couple of weeks in January. Some of the unfortunate take too much benzedrine, others find the Infirmary the safest place to be during a final, but a larger number are real victims of the psychological pressure of examinations...
...conclusion must be that the undergraduate takes the horrors of examinations period more in stride nowadays, and that the haggard faces around the Yard conceal nerves that are steely. Perhaps the empty Stillman beds are indicative not of the lull before a storm, but of a basic undergraduate sturdiness, which now seems to be not entirely due to the predominance of older...