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Undergraduates today sometimes complain that Conant is inapproachable; they forget that the Lampoon proposed creeting a tablet in the Yard on the spot where once President Lowell spoke to a freshman. Conant not only speaks to freshmen on all occasions--formal and informal--but three years ago he hurried next door from his Massachusetts Hall office to Straus Hall to take tea with an intrepid group of first-year men. He is also the first president in over 100 years to teach an undergraduate course at the same time he held the presidency...
...Hubert Eaton, 70, director of California's Forest Lawn Cemetery, is a cheerful man. In his credo, inscribed on a tablet at Forest Lawn, he has written: "I believe, most of all, in a Christ that smiles and loves you and me." The sunny decor of Forest Lawn- "the bright and cheerful private slumber rooms ... the beautiful vistas of green lawns and tall trees"-reinforces the theology.* But Dr. (honorary LL.D.) Eaton, who has already stocked his cemetery with a trove of religious paintings and statuary (including a replica of Michelangelo's David, with fig leaf added...
...Sons gave their Nydrazid to doctors at New York Hospital. There, though patients with advanced TB were scarce, the lab facilities were enormous. Dr. Walsh McDermott began elaborate biochemical tests on Nydrazid and soon made an important discovery: although it is swallowed as a pill (smaller than an aspirin tablet), the substance soon appears in the spinal fluid in "beautiful concentration." This meant that it might be extremely useful for tuberculous meningitis. Other tests recommended Nydrazid for miliary tuberculosis (throughout the body...
...alumni who had died on the German side of the war were omitted. The CRIMSON, in an editorial campaign, led the fight to put their names back on the plaque. A compromise was finally reached; although no German names appeared on the main World War I plaque, a small tablet elsewhere in the chapel commemorated Harvard's German lead...
...were omitted. The exclusion of these graduates stirred up much criticism in the University, and the CRIMSON, in an editorial campaign, led the fight to put their names back on the plaque. A compromise was finally reached: although no German names appeared on the main plaque, a small tablet elsewhere in the chapel commemorated Harvard's German dead...