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One of the Boston dailies calls attention in flaring head-lines to "An Epidemic of Contagious Diseases at Harvard," stating that "an epidemic of grippe, measles, scarlet fever, and diphtheria threatens the Colleges, etc." The actual facts are as follows: -Since the opening of the College year there have been two cases of diphtheria, one of scarlet fever, twenty-one of measles, and a few more of la grippe, neither of the last being in sufficient numbers to constitute an "epidemic" among a student population as large as that of Harvard.
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