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While he cannot change the situation which confronts the graduate, he can prepare the undergraduate for an earlier entry into the strife by utilizing the potentialities latent in the College. In other words, he can inaugurate next September a three-year course for qualified men who desire...
Coach Haines said yesterday that it is still much too early to offer any comment concerning the latent possibilities in this year's green material, but that it seemed to be a bit lighter than usual. So that he can devote all his time to impressing the fundamentals of a quick shoot-away and slo-o-ow recovery to his bargemen, he has turned the experienced Freshmen, including three prep school captains, over to Charlie Whiteside, varsity mentor...
...days later when the radio becomes alive with reports of an infant-kidnapping. The mysterious coming and going of the doctor and nurse take on an added significance and Emily Madison determines to get at the bottom of the matter. Contact with the infant brings out her latent mother-urge and when the alleged mother breaks under the tension and runs off, Emily decides to keep the child...
...that permanent life outside the organism was possible. . . . The tissues actually used in human surgery, as cartilage, periosteum, skin, and aponeuroses, could easily be taken in large quantities from the fresh cadavers of fetuses and infants and preserved in vaseline and in cold storage. A supply of tissues in latent life would be constantly ready for use, and the tubes containing the tissues could even be sent in small refrigerators of the type of the thermos bottle to surgeons who need them...
...such a situation. I cannot help feeling that something should be done to bring about the demise of anything so subtly derogatory to the character of all Harvard men. The only thing I can think of is to appeal directly and frankly to those instincts of honor which lie latent in the breasts of our most confirmed evildoers...