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During his dazzling years at Eton and Cambridge, nobody doubted that the very clever boy would build a very clever career. But at what? He was as interested in medieval Latin poetry and Peter Abelard as he was in math and the laws of probability. When he took the civil service exams that led to his first job in the India Office in 1906, his lowest score was in economics. Even after he returned to Cambridge as a don and took to editing the Economic Journal, he was most comfortable among the aesthetes of Bloomsbury. Philosopher Bertrand Russell once referred...
Paton said that he will begin plans for thefall concert as soon as exams are over. "SPA willhave an entire summer to build it into a biggerand better event," he said...
...roots of its `corporate culture.' He says one of AT&T's unwritten rules was that phones should be rented, not sold. Allen and his group traced this `law' back to the minutes of the second meeting of the company's board of directors. Since anyone could build a telephone in those days due to the simplicity of early communications technology, AT&T originally decided that more consumers would rent phones than buy them, and the marketing strategy...
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.-- When a town official said anti-apartheid protesters who build rickety shanties shouldn't live in them for safety reasons, Williams College students complied...
...College in Winter Park, Fla., had a reputation as a fun-in-the-sun country club, President Thaddeus Seymour ordered studies of what ailed the place and how it might be cured. The studies concluded that small was good, and the best way for Rollins to upgrade was to build on strong points and dump weak departments...