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Five Senators were absent. Each of the 91 who were present rose and voted yea...
Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 stated that "there are some irresponsible students at Harvard and the University should take action against them." Then, on a yea-nay vote, Sullivan's measure was passed...
Built-in Regulator. Hans Selye (rhymes with tell yea) was born in Vienna and took his M.D. and Ph.D. at Prague. Soon he settled at McGill to teach biochemistry, and added a D.Sc. there. In 1945 he switched to the University of Montreal. His 1936 paper on stress, as the cause of death in his experimental rats, attracted no more attention than Alexander Fleming's first report of penicillin-and it may prove no less important to suffering mankind...
...many schools think "they are training their people to work for the New York Times and no one else." Journalism graduates "want to become city editors, yea, managing editors, right off the bat and are offended when they are told to write obits instead." Most of them "do not have the slightest notion how to go about digging up a story . . . The boys we get from journalism seem to be in a fog, lack initiative, have a lackadaisical attitude toward...
...untroubled mind: "Yea, there is no cosmetic like a holy conscience." On electricity: "Knowledge hath clipped the lightning's wings, and mewed it up for a purpose...