Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a man enters a ward, he might just as well retire to a monastery. For a week he is dead to his friends; they and the outside world dead to him. Of course if he wants to strain his finger on a damnable little black button, he can talk to a friend brave enough to take the mile jaunt up Mount Auburn Street on a treacherous trolley...
...friends such sorrow? Just think, 400 people are probably undergoing our tragic experience this very hour. Mr. Alexander Graham Bell did invent a gadget known as a telephone and some enthusiastic disciple actually found that extensions were feasible, cheap and quite satisfactory. Surely, the installation of one in the ward would not clash too much with the Victorian setting...
Dean escaped unscathed for two innings, coasting behind a six-run attack which the Cards put on in the first inning, but in the third, the Phillies scored three runs and drove him to the showers with another onslaught in the fourth. Harrell and Ward finished...
...emergency ward was created yesterday in the Hygiene Building, anticipating the time when Stillman facilities will no longer be able to accommodate the swelling ranks of those stricken with the German measles, that well-known Teutonic plague...
There are 30 beds now occupied by measle victims in the infirmary, and just two more can be provided for them. Only once before in the memory of Dr. Paul H. Means '17, medical adviser, has it been considered necessary to establish a ward at 15 Mt. Holyoke Street. That was during the grippe epidemic of three years ago, but was never used...