Dick's House

How about the general health of the College, alumni and parents ask. At Dick's House they keep a beautiful chart which looks like the first half of the Yale game, only there is another line for the year before.

Last fall was a very healthy one, but this fall is even better. October 1933 was a very busy month, but October 1934 produced about half as many cases. No one in the contagious ward as yet. (Rap on wood!)

A long, cold winter is much more healthy than ah open winter. There are fewer variations in temperature, and the boys dress adequately. This year there wasn't a single case after house parties, which establishes a record. Of course fewer patients means a greater deficit, but like the Chinese, we can view that philosophically. It's a lot better to pay a little to keep well, than to pay a lot to get well.

There are a few amusing incidents to relieve the monotony of everyday events at Dick's House. Here's one the night watchman told us.

One day a freshman came up to get an enema. He was sent upstairs, and in a very few minutes came bounding down, and out the front door. He returned a few days later, and was asked why he didn't stay for his enema. "Why I did," he answered, "they gave it to me, and told me to hold it. I did my best, but gee, I was glad the library was so near."

We can't give his name, but Harry Hill man has him out for the track team.

Dick's House runs so quietly and smoothly we are prone to forget what a great gift it was to Dartmouth College.