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...book of figures, entitled "Gifts to Harvard. January 1. 1952 to March 31, 1952." President Conant said, "The number of donors listed in the following pages is impressive, as is also the total amount of their contribution. These gifts will enable us to go forward with a renewed vigor in a variety of enterprises I take pleasure in expressing sincerest appreciation to all who have given so generously. In so doing. I speak not only personally but on behalf of the governing boards and the members of the faculties...
...most cases this attitude is justified, but last Thursday's disturbance was different; not only was the vigor and unreasonableness of the local riot squad unique in the recent history of Harvard riots, but the disturbance itself was largely caused by the police. Since most of the Faculty were in the quieter reaches of New England, and the Associated Harvard Clubs meeting in St. Louis had claimed most of University Hall's occupants, few of those at tomorrow's Faculty meeting can be expected to realize how unique last Thursday's rumpus...
...Regions, like people, age," writes Harris, "and in the aging process an economic arteriosclerosis tends to develop. This social disease develops as inhabitants of new industrial regions, full of vigor and enthusiasm seeking a place in industry, confront the older regions with intense competition. These newer areas take industries away from the older ones, for the freedom of manufacture, relatively unfettered by past practices and customs, gives them a decided advantage in the struggle for newer industries...
JOHN RINGLING NORTH, at 48 the guiding spirit of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, is a burly, stubby man with an air of natural vigor about him. His thick eyebrows are black, the color of his face is high, and the flesh around his nose and jaw inclines to coarseness. He moves fast, with a short, brisk stride, and makes rapid gesticulations with his short-fingered, square-palmed hands when he talks. (He is not often silent.) There is nothing light or graceful about him when he stands chunkily on his own two feet...
Mexico. Its notable stability and expansive vigor may be due to the fact that it has emerged from the only true revolution ever to occur in Latin America. It is about as democratic as a one-party country can get, though probably a long way from the point where one party can peaceably yield power to another at the polls. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, the official government candidate, appears set to succeed President Miguel Alemán in the July elections...