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Anyone at all acquainted with the Hygiene Department's methods of doing, Dr. Bock, said would know immediately that the whole thing was nothing but a form of joke on a par with the hoax last April when 1500 students stormed the New Lecture Hall to hear a "doctor" lecture on birth control. The announcement of this meeting had likewise been sent out on fradulent cards...
...What disturbes me about this thing," Dr. Bock said last night, "Is not so much the fact that they are using the name of the Hygiene Department, as the fact that this fear is being set up in the minds of Freshmen. I can't emphasize how bad a thing it is to do to fellows who are just geting adjusted to a new life at College. It's a pretty low form of humor...
...method of handling all our relations with students, Dr. Bock continued is to carry on all relations as quietly and as unobtrusively as possible. The use of an open post card, with the reason for the requested appointment is a practice that the Hygiene Department never uses, he said. No diagnoses is ever listed on a letter asking a student to call...
...prank in such obvious bad taste apt to suffer unjustly, but the reputation of the Hygiene Department for providing accurate, constructive health information to students undergoes unwarranted defamation. It is not an easy job to build up undergraduate confidence in the University's hygiene center, but Dr. Bock has made progress in this direction. It is therefore not a laughable joke which threatens to tear down such work. Particularly in the light of the announcement today that Harvard doctors are wholeheartedly backing a movement to make medical aid more available to the general public, this degenerate fraud glistens in direct...
...take all the fun out of college. Amusing incidents, companionable joshing, and downright merriment are desirable, not only to make these four years memorable in later life, but to relax from the rigors of studying and even to make more digestible some of the dining hall meals. Dr. Bock and his associates are in full accord with keeping their undergraduate charges happy by jokes or any other decent means, for happiness and health go hand in hand. But so called humor with a cruel or perverted twist cannot be tolerated here, and the Department is justified in taking every possible...