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...physicians 40 years ago, the living brain was a jungle of tangled nerve fibres, a mass of corrugated grey tissue. A few brave men dared to perform brain operations, but most of their patients died. In 1905 young Surgeon Harvey Williams Cushing penetrated this wilderness, and in 28 years, almost singlehanded, he perfected the technique of brain and nerve operations. Today, thanks to Dr. Cushing, an operation for brain tumor is no more dangerous than a stomach operation...
...route for New York Saturday, the Club will perform first at the Harvard Club in that city. After stops in Syracuse and Cleveland, the group will sing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in two concerts. As a special feature, there will be a broadcast at Rochester, thus bringing to a close nine days crammed with activity...
Almost all of last fall's Varsity squad members who are eligible for another year of competition are expected to be on hand for the spring's drill on fundamentals. Notable absentees will be tackle Tom Healey, who has mound duties to perform for Floyd Stahl's baseball team, and George Downing another tackle, who doubles between football and track...
...future? It would seem best to abolish elections positively and definitely. There will probably be attempts to revive them in some form or other-one proposal being that the Yardlings should elect their Jubilee and Smoker Chairmen, these men to perform a definite function. This eliminates one cardinal objection: that officers were elected as meaningless figure-heads. It still falls before the greater objection that men are necessarily chosen on the basis of a distored, perverted set of values. Perhaps the millenium will arrive when Freshmen awake from their indifference, when they desire democracy earnestly enough to instil a genuine...
...Torah is made of parchment (calf or goat), hand-written by a scribe who must perform his task with the greatest purity of spirit and body, often taking a bath before writing. If anyone drops the Torah during a service, everyone present must fast for one day. Though it may be carefully uncovered, the scroll must not be touched by hand...