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From all over Britain they came, dealers, collectors, scientists, tweedy oölogists, pale studious curates. On the auctioneer's pulpit were bids from all over the world, for here was an occasion that might not come again in a lifetime. Six Great Auk eggs, all wrapped in cotton wool and lying in little boxes, and two stuffed Great Auk skins went on sale last week in Stevens auction rooms in London. They fetched a total...
...GUIDE TO MODERN POLITICS-G. D. H. Cole & Margaret Cole-Knopf ($3). Handy handbook on current political systems of all nations by a studious married pair who also collaborate on murder stories...
...many years we have admired the originality of the Harvard Faculty in thinking up semi-studious ways of filling in a spare hour, For example, there is that society of thrill-hunters known as the Odd Volume Club. Ah to be an Odd Volumer...
Sirs: If any article could rouse an alumna, that article would be the one published in TIME, Oct. 1, on Mount Holyoke. . . . If it were possible, I would like to run an excursion for all those interested in viewing the poor "always studious," "always hard up," "drably" dressed students who eke out "drab" lives under the "stern"-pardon me-"the large, stern" shadow of Mary E. Woolley. It is a pitiful case. I never realized what the four years in which cramming for quizzes was offset by weekends in New York and Boston, dances, dates, athletics, horse shows, class entertainments...
Sweden's currency management is a very conservative affair. The "manager" is the Swedish Riksbank's Governor Ivar Rooth, who has far fewer powers than the U. S. Federal Reserve now has. Studious, young (46) Governor Rooth's first objectives were to prevent inflation and keep prices stable inside Sweden. By May 1932. with inflation averted, Governor Rooth attacked his third objective-to raise the level of wholesale prices slowly and firmly, without increasing the cost of living. He cared nothing for what foreigners were willing to pay outside for Swedish kronor, except as foreign exchange affected...