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...into, and freeze you in, occupations which will be inadequately rewarding spiritually, which may curb mental enjoyment." Most men in middle life are bored with their jobs because they "selected their vocation in a search for security instead of adventure." ¶ Seek maturity, advised Dartmouth's John Sloan Dickey, through a "liberating education." In the modern world, "the immature are dismayed with disappointment and they demand answers which promise quick, sure, painless solutions. The immature are sure that only a knave or a fool . . . could have made a losing bet. The mature mind resists the search for panaceas...
...John Sloan Dickey...
...meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston on March 4, the president of Dartmouth claimed Communists are disqualified to teach. He asked for teachers who have "no need to take refuge in any American tribunal behind a privilege against incrimination by their own words." At the same time, Dickey warned against the "foul practices of incrimination by recrimination and insinuation...
Actually, the only protest came from Dartmouth. The Daily Dartmouth ran an editorial protesting Big Three Snobbery, terming baseball "a game that little boys can play," and calling for President John Sloan Dickey to resign from the Ivy League because of its high pressure athletic policies. The Indians' Green Key joined in, blasting the weekend as organized mid-Western "rah-rah collegiatism...
...Stewart Dunn, Jr. and William I. Shapiro will speak for Marshall, while John W. Dickey and I. LeMoyne Ellicott will represent Story on a question involving taxable income...