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...important qualification for a son-in-law. Boston mothers, on the prowl for young gentlemen eligible for debutante dances, turned to the clubs to provide them. And The Institute of 1770 even had ranking within itself: the first seventy or eighty elected to it from each class were termed Dickeys, from the name of a secret society D.K.E. For those undergraduates with the correct background it was all-important that they be elected to the Dickey--it meant certain social success in College and afterward. And even in 1926 when the Pudding and the Institute merged, the club sent...
...later years, the Dickey has disappeared. Hasty Pudding remains as a common ground for all clubs with a membership of over 600. Members are chosen from a list of candidates put up by friends in the club and passed on by the 11 presidents of the final clubs. Hasty Pudding also serves meals but is chiefly popular for its extensive, reasonable-priced bar; and Leo, one of the last of the Irish Tenor barmen. Since many of the final clubs do not permit women guests, the Hasty Pudding also gives dances throughout the football season. "The Hasty Pudding," says...
Robert "Red" Rolfe, former New York Yankee third baseman and Detroit Tiger manager, will become Dartmouth's director of athletics next July, President John Sloan Dickey announced yesterday...
Together with Pusey on the New England College committee are Dartmouth president John Sloane Dickey and Amherst president Charles W. Cole...
...Monro plan was discussed at an October 6 meeting of the 14 New England schools in Brunswick, Maine. At that time a committee of Pusey, Dartmouth President John Sloane Dickey, and Amherst President Charles W. Cole, was appointed to study the problem and report back. The Harvard representatives at the Brunswick meeting were Pusey, Dean Bundy and Director of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender...