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Ringleader of this aggressive revival of an old argument: Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, sprightly, 85-year-old president of the society, gynecologist, artist, marriage counselor. He had drawn a bill for "dignified, merciful" killing. Under it, any patient over 21 who found life unbearable could apply to a court for permission to die; if an investigating committee of doctors and laymen approved, his doctor would get authorization to end his life painlessly (e.g., by a narcotic). The bill would do nothing about imbeciles or children born monstrously deformed...
...hubbub of balloting, all discipline was lost. Cried Club President Mrs. LaFell Dickinson: "Ladies, will you please shut up!" There was even a dark suspicion that some of the alternates were voting illegally. Admonished the chairman: "I know that none of our women would cheat but some might be excited and forget...
When they had finished, President Dickinson admitted she couldn't tell the delegates where the next convention would be. Said she with some asperity: "It seems like no one wants...
Hammond's diary was edited by Amherst's English Professor George F. Whicker, biographer of Emily Dickinson (This Was a Poet). Writes he: ". . . We are prone to belittle what colleges [before the Civil War] were contributing [and to] think complacently of the bargain-counter curriculum currently spread before the freshmen's fastidious eyes. [But it is wrong to conclude] that education took place apart from and even in spite of the college.. , . The student of the 18405 . . . was going to college with an earnestness that his successors might well envy. He was not dabbling...
Married. Louise Dickinson Rich, 42, author of We Took to the Woods, and James Barnett, 62, whose business was getting them cut down (a retired lumber dealer); both for the third time; in Rumford...