Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past few years have helped bolster the status of the Center. Instead of running at a deficit on a separate listing, Dudley has operated like any other department included in the University budget since the start of the Senior Tutor plan in '52. And the $20 fee for all upper classmen ahs provided needed cash for the library fund. Just as important for prestige, although less tangible, was the addition of three members from the Board of Overseers as Honorary Associates of Dudley Hall: Robert F. Bradford '23, former Governor of Massachusetts; Joseph S. Clark Jr. '23, Major of Philadelphia...
...other reason, the lack of bedrooms in the house system has prevented serious consideration of absorbing all the commuters into the house as full members. In '51, therefore, Dean Bender's committee on advising recommended that "all upper class commuters should be assigned to cat in the Houses, and to participate fully in the educational and social life of the Houses." But the integration plan received more talk than action, and the idea slipped from immediate consideration when Dean Leighton' Report for '52-'53 set up the Non-Resident Commuter's Center "palled to the seven Houses...an eighth house...
...question of colds and other upper respiratory infections brought Dr. Lawson to his final blast against the overuse of antibiotics. More than 90% of children's fevers and respiratory and gastrointestinal infections are caused by viruses, he declared, and antibiotics are of no use against viruses. "Yet many physicians cannot refrain from scattering antibiotics far and wide because 1) the family expects it, 2) it won't do any harm. 3) it might do some good, or 4) you can't tell which infection is viral and which bacterial . . . The pressure to 'do something is always...
...score one minute later with a goal by Paul Sheehy. In the final minute of the period, assisted by Bill Cleary and Jerry O'Malley, Ned Bliss netted his second goal of the night after catching the Eagle goalie off-balance with a shot in the upper left hand corner of the cage...
...felt like playing squash. We went down to the University Squash Courts and were surprised to find a sign, "closed Saturday." Then we walked up to Hemenway, where we were told that the courts there were open only to members of the freshman and varsity teams. Now, the upper-classmen presumably have their own courts in the Houses; but are there enough? And this still leaves us Freshmen out in the cold...