Word: dickeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Owen Wister recalls, however, that a song written for the 1879 Dickey show referred to Roosevelt as "awful smart, with waxed mustache and hair in curls." Indeed, the Roosevelt of his college days looked nothing like the portly president of the 1900's. He was thin-faced and anemic, and had not yet developed the much-caricatured prominent teeth and jaw of his later years. He also wore reddish whiskers, carefully nurtured, which caused amusement in the Yard...
President John Sloan Dickey called the revisions part of an overall program to establish a strong compensation program...
Dartmouth has announced a tuition increase of $190 to make the combined tuition and general fee $1,170 in place of the current $980. President John Sloan Dickey said the increase was due to rising operating costs...
...Instead of textbooks, syllabuses, and spoon-fed lectures, students will rely much more on their own wide (and required) reading of pertinent books and primary sources in the library. The whole idea, sums up President John Sloan Dickey, is to end the student's "dependence on teaching," and declare his "independence in learning...
This major academic turn-about contributes to a general Dartmouth program of improvements, leading up to the 200th Anniversary of the college in 1969. President Dickey intends Dartmouth by then to occupy the primary place in American education...