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From the middle 1850s when, as a schoolboy in Switzerland and an undergraduate at Göttingen University, he began picking up fragments of stained glass from ruined churches, buying works of art was his obsession. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, rare drawings, incunabula (literally, things from the cradle, or books printed before 1501), bookbindings, historical documents and letters-these poured into his vaults, sucked from Europe as by a vacuum cleaner by the limitless power of his funds. After 1906 the collection was housed in the Morgan Library, a Manhattan palazzo designed by McKim, Mead & White that is itself...
...Speaking of hockey, what team is the schoolboy champion of the state? Name the top line on that squad...
...reminded of a Dutch joke: In the year 2000, a schoolboy was asked who Brezhnev was. After a pause, he answered: "An unimportant Russian statesman in the time of Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
...decade or so the Harvard-Yale hockey game has had about as much significance as a mid-season battle between the Bruins and the Golden Seals. Ho hum. The mere rivalry between the two schools alone used to be enough to have the game scheduled in that mecca of schoolboy hockey, the Boston Arena. But even that has begun to fizzle, and last year the game was rescheduled for the cozy confines of Watson Rink...
DeLorenzi was a key player on last season's squad which came on strong a the end of the campaign only to drop two overtime games to the eventual intercollegiate champions, Wisconsin, in the double elimination western playoffs for the nationals. The Irish also boast a schoolboy star from the Cambridge area, Brian "Dukie" Walsh, who played his high school hockey at Matignon. Walsh is the center of Notre Dame's first line and now fourth in team scoring with a 13-game total of nine goals and five assists...