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HARVARD: In spite of the injuries sustained Saturday, the Crimson is deep enough to do battle for a full season. More than any other team, the varsity will grow stronger as the talented sophomore hoard gains experience. The momentum built up in two non-Ivy games will carry through Cornell and Columbia, and an upset over Dartmouth--which will come off a tough B.C. game as it came off Holy Cross last year--may get to be the rule...
...next three years, Quincy devoted himself to his practice, his wife, and his studies. The Puritan Ethic did not permit idle time; Quincy's dairy is replete wtih statements such as, "I resolve, therefore, in future to be more circumspect--to hoard my moments with a more thrifty spirit--to listen less to the suggestions of indolence, and so quicken that spirit of intellectual improvement to which I devote my life." In addition to copious readings in the classics, he spent a great deal of time learning French, studying botany, keeping an extensive diary, and attending to affairs legal...
...Stockholm a much more impressive haul from China sat in a customs shed. It was a treasure hoard picked up in Peking by Nils Nessim, 43, a Swedish carpet dealer and importer. On a previous trip to Red China last year he had bought only modern carpets, ivory and porcelain. This time, taken down winding Peking streets to out-of-the-way antique shops, Nessim said he had stumbled onto a marvelous bronze figure of a six-armed, three-faced god crowned with a headdress of flames, excitedly asked if he might buy it. Told that he might, Nessim realized...
...with other institutional buyers, have needled the roaring bull market to artificial highs, that their constant buying, chiefly of blue chips, has helped create the present shortage of stocks. The funds' answer: they hold only 3.4% of all stock on the New York Stock Exchange, and do not hoard it; they turn their shares over faster than the exchange as a whole...
...academic atmosphere where shallow sophistication is often the social posture, and skepticism a handy critical tool, the beauty of personal warmth and kindness is frequently forgotten. But there are those who feel that a desire to hoard information like gold can never replace the certainty that learning should be sifted and tempered with humanity to breed wisdom...