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...Laurin watched the groom prepare Secretariat's usual supper-oats cooked into a mash, plus carrots and some vitamins and minerals, plus some "sweet feed," grains coated with molasses to provide the rough equivalent of a candied breakfast cereal. The mixture filled the better part of a big tub, and Laurin said, "He won't finish that in three days." An hour and a half later the tub was empty...
...community at large, only those plans, goals, projections and timetables submitted to it by the various deans, department heads and administrative units within the University. The fact is that anyone with a modicum of understanding of the University structure knows that Harvard operates on a system of "every tub on its own bottom...
...talking about a partnership, not a tub concept," she said, "but we've got to have more guarantees than present performance would indicate that we have...
...after returning to school at Columbia University, Winchell began discussing medicine with several doctor friends; he soon was borrowing their medical books and looking over their shoulders in operating rooms. After watching doctors lower a patient's body temperature prior to an operation by placing him in a tub of ice, Winchell invented a refrigerated, rubberized suit to do the job more easily...
...Because faculties at Harvard are financially independent of each other--Each Tub on Its Own Bottom--that function does not need to be performed here," he explained...