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...past, many an undergraduate must have gazed into the darkened interior of Lamont Library at night after 9:45 or on Sundays, and wished fervently that every College administrator would pin these words above his desk and meditate upon them daily. Then the undergraduate would sigh hopelessly and trudge back to his dormitory, often to join in the noise-making that prevented concentrated study. To this student, it must have seemed that the Library existed for the convenience of its staff. His demands for longer Lamont hours were met with the explanation that keeping the Library open would be prohibitive...
Against Cornell Saturday, the Crimson will have to stop the pin-point passing of DeGraaf, one of the top quarterbacks in the Ivy League. In addition to DeGraaf, the Big Red 'possesses a number of other excellent backs, led by Dick Jackson, Dick Meade, Art Boland, and Bob McAniff...
Eisenhower himself had warned of this danger. Only three weeks ago, answering an insistent demand that he run again, he said: "Humans are frail-and they are mortal. Finally-you never pin your flag so tightly to one mast that if a ship sinks you cannot rip it off and nail it to another. It is sometimes good to remember that." And he had broadened that advice to include all of the U.S.: "Any American would like to think that he has the confidence of his fellow Americans when he is trying to do a tough job. But, again...
...final at Richmond, not only his putter but all of his clubs were hot. His drives carried true; his iron shots were invariably dead on the pin. His putting was steady and deadly. He was eight up at the end of the first...
...humans are frail-and they are mortal. [We] never pin our flag so tightly to one mast that, if a ship sinks, you cannot rip it off and nail it to another. It is sometimes good to remember that...