Word: vivisectionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In newspaper advertisements and in mailed leaf-lets, the melancholy faces of cocker spaniels and kittens have recently appeared to ask you for mercy. Their appeals are translated into English by the anti-vivisection societies, now embarked on a new crusade to keep pets from the torture chambers of Cruel...
The image of doctors muttering midnight incantations over the sufferings of mute beasts is ridiculous enough to make most non-Hearst readers laugh at the anti-vivisectionists. They should. Two years ago the anti-vivisectionists paraded a steady stream of pet-owners to the State House for hearings on the...
Through such medical research the lives of thousands of diabetics have been saved and prolonged, since the effectiveness of insulin was discovered partly through experiments on dogs. Animal experimentation has saved human lives in other fields as well. Medical witnesses have repeatedly emphasized that general anesthesia is always employed in...
Surely the editors of the CRIMSON must realize that their selection of advertising will reflect in some degree upon their journalistic integrity. The publication of an advertisement of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society hardly does credit to the semi-official "voice" of Harvard University.
This university is one of the greatest research centers in the world, ant it seems incongruous to find its newspaper carrying the publicity of a fanatical group whose every purpose and intention is contrary to that research. Why should the CRIMSON choose to be a vehicle for such short-sighted...