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...that had I wished to take the low road to the Cum Laude degree, my senior program could have consisted on French E, F, G, and H--in which I would have needed only 3 C-minuses and a D-minus. We can fairly conclude that while obtaining the Bachelor's degree Cum Laude, I could also have caught up on three years of sleep...
...trustee for 48 years, Meat Packer Harold H. Swift willed the $5,000,000 bulk of his $7,000,000 estate, half of the money to be used at the discretion of the school's officials, the other half as a permanent endowment fund. Cautioned Swift, a bachelor whose major outside interest was the university: "The fund is to be invested and reinvested ... I do not mean thereby to encourage the taking of wild gambles, trusting to luck; but rather I would have said university free to take on occasional unorthodox business ventures in the expectation that some...
...medicine cabinet saying: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest one of all?" Replied Charlene, without pausing to analyze the situation: "You are." Later, the owner of the mystery voice came around to find out who had answered the query so sweetly. He was a handsome bachelor who lived in the next apartment, but the story had no romantic ending for Charlene: he married her roommate instead...
...Avoid Wasting Time." An abstemious bachelor, Latourette met these responsibilities by keeping to a rigid work schedule that allowed him precisely one hour a day for walking. Yale legend has it that professors breakfasting at the Divinity School dining room know it is 8 o'clock when Latourette flips his copy of the New York Times to the editorial page. "That is just a myth," he says. "All I try to do is to avoid wasting time...
...several government administrative boards, pays particular attention to the power company, the biggest Kadoorie investment. He collects ancient Chinese art works because "it gives me a sense of calmness," and dotes on sports cars because "they're cheaper than race horses or concubines." Horace Kadoorie, 60, a nervous bachelor, oversees, the brothers' philanthropies and is involved in "trams, ferries, wharfs and rubber plantations-but I'm not very much interested in business...