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Both Cant and Daniels are members of the Urner Ornithological Club in New Jersey. Cant, who was president of the club for two years, credits the late Charles Anderson Urner, for whom the club is named, for bringing him "out of the dickey-bird stage." Cant has never totaled the birds he has seen on four continents and dozens of Pacific islands, but he was once a member of a party that sighted the only western grebe ever seen in New Jersey. Daniels has a "life list" of some 800 different species. They include about 100 he has seen...
...Most field birders defer to their more scientific brethren, refuse to call themselves field ornithologists. They also feel that the more common lay term of birdwatcher is undignified and inaccurate, and would be more appropriately applied to "dickey birders," who retain the fledgling illusion that birds sing because they are happy...
...letter, Sears also referred at length to last week's statement by the Association of American Universities and also to an address last month of John Sloan Dickey, President of Dartmouth...
...Dickey said that the events of the past six years have justified the position he took in 1947 of not knowingly appointing communists to academic posts. Higher education, he affirmed, will only prosper if it is carried on by men who have no need to take refuge behind the Fifth Amendment...
Because members of the Communist Party are "committed to the use of deceit and deception as a matter of policy," they should not be allowed to teach, John S. Dickey, President of Dartmouth College, stated last night...