Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backs John Hutchinson, professor of Physics and dean of Harvard rugby, and Mike Burbank will be strongly challenged for their jobs by the newcomers, John Dickinson, John Woodman, Steve Zeitian, and John Lightbody, all of whom should provide needed scoring punch. Dickinson played for the Argentine National Junior Team, and, at only 130 pounds, plays the tough fullback position as well as anyone Harvard ruggers have ever seen. His fine kicking ability should keep the ball out of trouble...
...failure to turn in homework: "My dog pead on it." Teachers everywhere seem to have kids as sniggery as those of Miss Barrett's, who is advised by a veteran teacher: "Never give a lesson on lie and lay" and never say "the word frigate," as in Emily Dickinson's "There is no frigate like a book...
...plays the stereotyped champion of human rights that he seems compelled to endorse in film after film, changing only his dialect. Bloody, brutally beaten by local louts, he makes a final, desperate attack against prejudice and hatred while indifferent townsfolk stand by. Next morning, Marlon packs up Wife Angie Dickinson and hits the road. Heading straight North, like...
...campus abroad is a contagious new fashion in American undergraduate education. Stanford started it in 1958 by acquiring a German estate in tiny Beutelsbach, near Stuttgart. It added a villa in Florence, a hotel in Tours, another hotel near Vienna only last September. New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University took over Wroxton Abbey from Oxford's Trinity College, moved in last summer. Spokane's Gonzaga University (enrollment: 2,440) has its own six-story building in Florence, and California's University of Redlands (enrollment: 1,500) leases a building in Salzburg. Temple University announced last week...
...recorded on Dec. 9, "bisket, tea cups, saucers & a knife thrown at tutors. At evening prayers the lights were all extinguished by powder and lead." A partial list of college casualties during this period includes one undergraduate dead in a duel at South Carolina College and another at Dickinson, several students shot at Ohio's Miami University, a professor killed at the University of Virginia, and the president of Mississippi's Oakland College stabbed to death by a student...