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...Crimson football squad looking to rebound from last season's so-so third-place finish, the prospect of doing battle in the pits with even a pair of those behemoths isn't very encouraging. And around the Ivy League, in many sports, the story is the same: Blue-chip athletes are being vigorously courted, and often successfully wooed, by Harvard's athletic rivals. Yet Harvard continues to stand by its policy of low-level recruiting, with results that have been, at least so far, fairly good...
Cookie Pusher. Chocolate chip cookies are not exactly new: they date back to colonial times, when they were known as tollhouse cookies. It took Cookie Pusher Wally Amos, 40, to put chic into chips...
...There are 100 people in Pennypacker, and if we all chip in a dollar or so, it might lighten his burden," Graybill said...
Except for an understandable overflow of sentiment, the final episode of Upstairs, Downstairs, PBS's blue-chip 'British import, was of a piece with its predecessors. There was the titillating peek into the ways of conspicuous consumption: among other extravagances, the recipe for Georgina's four-tiered wedding cake calls for 16 pounds of currants. There was the history bulletin: Hudson snaps shut his newspaper (the time is 1930) and announces that two million Englishmen are unemployed. There was the subtle reminder that no servant is a heroine to her mistress: in an unusual fit of garrulity...
According to one Warren Center source, the practice of making summer stipends from Warren Center income available to the American history professors on a regular basis began only in recent years. The source said that the practice became widespread after Rosovsky used offers of summer stipends as a bargaining chip in bringing to the University David Donald, Warren Professor of American Civilization, Stephen Thernstrom, professor of History, and Robert Fogel, who holds appointments in both Economics and History...