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Standard of Value. Coffee Exchange President Gustavo Lobo Jr. said that FTC's complaint about coffee was made on "flimsy grounds," and put the blame on the July 1953 frost that threatened a coffee shortage and touched off a wild rise in prices. Lobo explained that Santos 4 coffee is the basis for trading because it "is the most popular coffee, the . . . standard of value." But the exchange does trade in other grades, said he (in all, about 40% of U.S. coffee). Actually, prices are set not by the exchange alone. Such big roasters as A. & P., General Foods...
...here by the fire we defy frost and storm...
...library, which Dartmouth candidly claims is the largest college library in the world, with 750,000 volumes. Rising Lowell-House-like above the "green", Baker Library houses a variety of treasured, including such outstanding author collections as those of Robert Burns, George Ticknor, Stephen crane, and Robert Frost and such regional libraries as the Stefannson Collection on polar areas. Since Dartmouth prides itself on a "teaching" faculty, most professors there do comparatively little research. Thus, the library is considered easily adequate for their needs as well as those of the undergraduates...
...considers the chief influence on his thinking about literature, and especially poetry, to be his contact with Robert Frost. The two became close friends as teacher and student at Amherst and the friendship persisted when Brower became a graduate student here. Frost was among the contributers to a magazine which Brower started in 1932, called The New Frontier, "a little magazine with a social conscience whose only distinction was that instead of dying it just stopped...
...Like Frost, Brower loves New England, loves particularly to take long walks along its country roads. He is an inveterate walker and at Amherst he often led a hiking group through the surrounding woods, spicing the ramblings with peripatetic philosophy. Early this summer he did some concentrated meandering on Cape Cod, "way down, you know, where Thoreau walked...