I mentioned, in the tale devoted to MMM, some of the personal items that ended up in that collection. It may be that certain readers are interested in how those items were secured. Here is the story of a few of them.

Professor Wiener's Hat

When I was a graduate student at Harvard University, a friend and I sought a ride to New Haven to attend a mathematics meeting held at Yale University. In those days very few students possessed cars, so we went about contacting professors and finally secured transportation in the car driven by Professor Norbert Wiener of MIT. Professor Wiener and Professor Dirk Struik (also of MIT) rode in the front and we two students rode in the rear. It was a very hair-raising ride, for the car wove perilously from one side of the road to the other as Professor Wiener, with his hands seemingly more often off the steering wheel than on it, energetically gesticulated during his conversation with Dr. Struik.

We finally arrived, miraculously safe, in New Haven. The day was rainy and we all wore hats to keep the rain from running down our necks. About noontime our group walked over to a cafeteria at Yale for lunch and we hung our raincoats and hats on a clothes tree in the front part of the cafeteria. After lunching, we rose to don our hats and coats.