"What would happen to Joe Di Maggio [of the American League's New York Yankees] if there were no National League?"
Propounder of this question was Harvard's spectacled young President James Bryant Conant. He believes that teachers, like baseball players, are kept on their toes by lively competition for their professional services. In no danger of slacking is Harvard's Economist John Henry Williams, world-famed authority on money and banking. But bald, caustic Professor Williams, despite the fact that his department conferred on him in 1933 its prized Nathaniel Ropes chair, left Cambridge a month...
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