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Snow lay 25 inches deep. The houses were dark, the beerhalls deserted. Everything about the little (pop. 3,700) copper-mining community of Houghton, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, suggested rural serenity...
Everything, that is, except the scene in unheated Dee Stadium, where it seemed that half of Houghton was watching the home-town Huskies of Michigan Technological University take on Minnesota of the Big Ten for the second time in two days. Perched on window casings and rafters, the fans screamed "Hit 'em! Hit 'em!" and amused themselves by hurling nickels, dimes, and even a firecracker onto the ice - until the announcer begged them to stop "because our boys could get hurt, too." When Tech won 5-4, they trooped off to the Ambassador Grille to toast the victory...
Tech makes no pretense of running a well-rounded athletic program; the same night the Huskies were beating Minnesota, Tech's basketball team allowed Isidore Schmiesing of St. Cloud State College to score 56 points-thereby absorbing its 16th loss of the season. Hockey is the game in Houghton, and the town's devotion is maniacal. When season tickets for the 1,065 seats in Dee Stadium went on sale last November, they sold out in 2½ hours...
Professionalism? Shucks, no. Perfectionism? Well, almost. Last week, boasting a season's record of 23 wins, five losses and a tie, Tech played one last game-against Michigan State, a team it already had beaten twice before at Houghton. Only this time the game was in East Lansing, Mich. No nickels, dimes and firecrackers, no raw eggs and rotten fish. The arena was even heated. The homesick Huskies lost...
...librarian Herbert E. Kleist, the box which houses the Harvard book-jacket collection is worth more than all the first editions in Houghton. Since 1948 he has taken a few minutes at the end of each day to sift through the five or six dozen jackets accumulated for him by Widener's catalog department, where he works as a specialist in Dutch, African, and Frisian books. About ten per cent of these jackets escape immediate oblivion and go to his home for more critical scrutiny. Since Harvard College Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf decided in 1948 to preserve only the works...