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his first lecture, He began it by saying, "One of the first things to know about Economics is that it is nonsense to say that 'two can live as cheaply as one.'"  A faint ripple of laughter ran through the room.  Two women students, however, were not amused.  A flinty expression came into their eyes and they abruptly rose and walked out of the class.

Everyone, I suppose, remembers only one or perhaps two of all the studies to which he was exposed in college.  For me they were anthropology and the course in the Bible and the Great Books, conducted by the famous Charles Mills Gayley.  So many students signed up for it that his classes assembled in the Greek theater.  Not even the auditoriums were large enough to house them.  To say that these two subjects interested me above all others may sound pretentious, and it may give the reader an arroneous impression of me at the time.  My student life was well rounded with other interests.  I never became an ardent football fan nor did I rah-rah my head off at the rallies.  But I enjoyed the dances and all the