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...serum is obtained from the blood of persons who have recovered from the disease. The Commission therefore suggests that such persons may render a service to children now afflicted by allowing a small amount of their blood to be taken. The proceeding is without danger. All persons who are willing to aid in this way may call at any time at the Harvard Medical School Administration Building, Huntington avenue, and make inquiry for the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission. If this is not convenient, an expert will visit the home for the purpose of collecting the blood serum...
...special blanks which all must fill out are simply to insure the entire University against a possible case coming from the outside. It is a precautionary measure which will inconvenience none, and will exclude the remotest chance of infection. To render the measure of any value, it is of the greatest importance that each man give exactly and correctly the information that is required. Otherwise the blanks will have the value of waste paper, and a necessary precaution against a serious epidemic will fall to have been taken...
...military training for universal and obligatory military service--that is for service, in time of war, by each man in whatever capacity the country needs him. In this nation, just as in every other nation that endures, there exist obligations of citizenship as well as privileges. The obligation to render military service to the country rests upon all citizens, share and share alike, each according to the best of his ability. The camps provide the machinery for the operation of a system of universal military training under exclusive federal control. At present, however, they rest upon a voluntary basis, upon...
...obligation to render military service to the country rests upon all citizens, share and share alike, each according to the best of his ability." College men are needed to serve as officers and the summer camps are their training schools. America is "the home of the brave"; but bravery and ignorance cannot compete with knowledge and the business end of a gun. Harvard today leads in total enlistments and Harvard must continue and increase this lead. It is only through training, obligatory if need be, but serious training at any rate, that the colleges as a whole and Harvard...
...dining-room will be opened and a standing buffet supper served. There will also be tables about the quadrangle and along the balcony by the dining and common rooms where Freshmen may serve their guests. At 7.30 o'clock the interdormitory singing contest will take place. Each dormitory will render one song and immediately after the decision will be made and the cup awarded. The leader of the winning hall will then lead the entire class, which will gather on the stone promenade of James Smith Hall, in several selections. Dancing will follow in the Smith common and dining rooms...