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ERIC J. GROVES Editor The Dickinsonian Dickinson College Carlisle...
...scientific sculptures of the female body to teach laymen about birth control, pregnancy, female disorders. In his exhibit last week he displayed his popular "Birth Prelude" -a plaque of dimpled, della Robbia-like babies in terra cotta, showing the growth of a fetus from conception to birth. With characteristic Dickinsonian whimsey, the largest fetus holds the tiniest one in his hand. Another pair of plaques showed graphically how a child is fed in its mother's womb...
Professor W. G. Lake of Dickinson college, has written some instructions about playing football in the Dickinsonian. He says: "Run whenever you get a chance; practice wrestling, dodging and falling. Learn all the signs perfectly...
...Dickinsonian" offers an alternative. First, that witnesses be compelled to give testimony, and secondly, that the faculty give up every care of the students except in scholarship. The first is practically impossible, be cause for one reason, a student who feels that some one is trying to compel him to speak against his will would be all the more likely to refuse, and, also, because then the undergraduates and the instructors are at once pitted against each other in the old hatred which, thanks to the liberalism of recent years, is fast passing away. But the second course. When...
...Dickinsonian" asks if this is impossible. We answer, no; and venture to state further, that at the end of not many years ahead of us Harvard University will become a university in fact. And that it will simply be the care of the faculty to attend to the studies of the students, and to let the rest fall upon the shoulders of the men themselves...