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Other University officials feel, however, that the University will suffer less than churches. According to James A. Rousmaniere, director of the Fund for Harvard College, the smaller gifts to the Fund are given, entirely out of habit. He feels that the donations will continue regardless of the new rule on deductions...
...when I pin my diploma on my shirt, the white world won't act like it doesn't respect me. I'll still be "the nigger" but, when I show my trophy, the world will bend to necessity. It's so funny. There'll be no real necessity--just habit. I might even, some day, become Ralph Bunche or, in forty years, Bobby Kennedy. But then, I'll still be nigger to the man on the train. Yes, it's funny, pathetically funny on Commencement night, after the exercises, when I climb back onto the MTA and ride back into...
Firemen's Confirmation. A quiet, careful man who runs his small-town practice with no frills (he does not even own a white coat), Dr. Cook is not the type to make a habit of long-distance diagnosis. But of Bob's letter he said: "It was a perfect case history, and a clear message to me." That message was "carbon monoxide poisoning." And 90 miles away, firemen who found a blocked furnace ventilator pipe that was forcing carbon monoxide back into the cottage made the final confirmation of Dr. Cook's diagnosis...
...time a smoker was considered beyond redemption by the Mormon church. Now he can be brought into the church, given useful assignments and, if he breaks the habit, be fully accepted...
What has not changed is Tidende's dominance in an overcrowded field. Tiny Denmark, only half the size of Maine and no more populous than North Carolina, fields no less than 80 dailies. But in two centuries, Tidende has become an unbreakable habit. On its circulation lists are descendants of subscribers originally signed up by Ernst Berling. In Copenhagen, a city of 1,250,000, the seven papers that compete with Tidende's three -which include B.T., a tabloid, and the evening Berlingske Aftenavis-together muster a circulation barely matching the Tidende group...