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Excused from their afternoon classes, over half the Medical School's 500 students jammed a State House hearing yesterday to throw their support behind the Nolen-Miles vivisection bill.
Together with Tufts and B.U. medical students, the group packed the building's largest hearing room almost to the exclusion of opponents, as doctors continued arguments for the controversial measure. The bill would legalize animals for medical use.
When State Senator Edward Rowe asked the measure's proponents to rise, over three-fourths of the audience leaped to its feet. Later, Rowe asked all medical students to stand, and almost the identical group arose.
The group hard Dr. Sidney Farber '37, assistant professor of Pathology, testify that "animals are a necessity if we are to proceed in medical science.
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