Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Phiney Baxter, President of Williams College and former Harvard professor of History, Saturday awarded President Conant a doctor of laws degree at the William two-day annual winter home coming festivities...
When Allen Bernard, alias "Carlin." arrived at Rockland, he introduced a friend he had brought with him as his sister, and faked a serious mental depression. "Doctor," his helpful "sister" pleaded, "Allen has tried to take his own life and I think he ought to be treated here for a while." Half an hour later, greatly to his surprise, he was bedded in a ward full of madmen...
...incipient dementia praecox victim, warned him to withdraw his petition, threatened to have his sister sign a three-month commitment. Thoroughly alarmed, Patient Carlin loudly demanded his freedom. After three anxious days, his "sister" arrived and he was able to warn her against signing the commitment which the doctors urgently advised. After two more endless days-up at 5:30 a. m., back to a sleepless cot at 8 p. m., locked away from all telephones -his "sister" came back with a Park Avenue neurologist who succeeded in getting Bernard out by agreeing to take him to a private sanatorium...
Mystery surrounds the circumstances under which the first year law student met his death. Police and friends are completely at a loss to tell why he jumped, fell, or was thrown into the Charles River. The doctor performing the autopsy stated death was accidental and that the backbone was broken by the fall. At noon, Saturday, November 13, he was apparently in good spirits and in good health as he joked with his roommate and friends in Perkins Hall...
...They and their late doctor-father founded the Mayo Clinic...