New Haven Gives Stork Coaching, Yalies See No Fatherhood Shortage

If you go to Yale, you can learn "all the dope you need in order to become a father," and you don't even have to go to the trouble and expense of a trip Smithward to acquire it.

Thanks to a course staffed in part by Yale instructors and given by the New Haven Father's Council, Yalies can learn the ropes of fatherhood with all the expenditure of effort of an armchair strategist, according to a daily New Haven handbill.

Given in the belief that "each of us owes a good deal to fatherhood," the course has no prerequisites and all "Yale students are invited. Married fathers are, however, preferred.

Those who attend run the gaunt from a movie entitled "In the Beginning," which purports to depict "certain essentials of fatherhood," to a lecture on "The Historic Background of Medicine and Obstetrics."

Applied Physiology

The latter talk is given by Yaleman Howard W. Haggard, professor of Applied Physiology, who views the course as a genuine contribution to "the field of enlightened fatherhood."

Professor Haggard is sure that there is a real need for the course in fatherhood at Yale. He predicts that there will soon be many more sons of Eli than the world suspects. "There are more expectant fathers at Yale than any of us are willing to admit," he observes.

Originator No Dad

surprisingly enough, the man who thought up the entire course 12 years ago is not a father himself. But health officer Joseph I. Linde still keeps up with all the latest advances in the field of obstetrics and infant care, and has carried the major load of the training of prospective fathers.

Harvard men too, can cash in on the fatherhood lectures this weekend. Worried Romeos on their way back to Cambridge have just to delay their trip long enough to stop off at the New Haven City Health Department at 8 o'clock Sunday night to learn all they need to know about "enlightened fatherhood."