Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred N. Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature, and Hugh O'N. Hencken, Curator of European Archaeology at the Peabody Museum, have lately been awarded the degree of doctor of Literature by the National University of Ireland, it was announced yesterday...
...Francisco, an anonymous doctor makes the rounds of poorhouses, reformatories, public hospitals, asylums and jails. Each year he selects 30 to 40 specimens for 472 medical students of Stanford and the University of California. Cost of transportation, preservation and storage averages $10 a cadaver. San Francisco's anonymous cadaver collector gets a dozen offers a year from people who want to donate their bodies, many more from those who want to sell. He accepts none...
Chicago medical schools, which get their anatomical specimens from public institutions, burn their remains. That practice seems to be delicately tied up with a legendary incident which occurred before Illinois passed its law legitimizing the supply of cadavers to schools, and which many a Chicago doctor likes to relate. Two students of what is now Northwestern University snatched a body from a Wisconsin cemetery, dressed it, propped it between them on the seat of their buggy. On the way back to Chicago they stopped at a tavern for drinks. While they were inside two Rush (University of Chicago) medical students...
...going to stay awake now, Helen," said the doctor. And sure enough she was soon sitting up in bed, eating heartily...
Other suggestions for bettering the intramural system include the hiring of the officials for all contests, the presence of a doctor at all football games, and the employment of a regular trainer to care for participants and equipment throughout the year...