Word: albertus
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...heart and take away melancholy, while the scent of violets was considered an aid to digestion. It cannot be an accident that gardeners so often last so long. Cato the Censor, a fine source on growing cabbages, lived to 85, a very old age in ancient Rome. Medieval Theologian Albertus Magnus, whose green thumb led to charges of witchcraft, died at 87, while one of America's Founding Gardeners, Thomas Jefferson, lived...
Later that evening you learn why Harvard emphasizes extracurricular activities, and why Yale men seem, comparatively speaking, so tense. At a Davenport College party, usually one of the wildest during The Weekend, you meet not one Yale woman, but a host of friendly Albertus Magnus types. Beth, a somewhat typical Albertus student, takes you into a dark corner and, with little prodding, gives you the rundown you have been seeking all day. "The best place to eat, not fancy, but fun, is Gentrees, a little var and restaurant across from Davenport," she says. "And the best place to drink, though...
These were mere toys, however, compared with the persistent and half-forbidden dream of an artificial man.-* St. Albertus Magnus, the 13th century German philosopher, was said to have spent 30 years constructing a servant of "deceptively human appearance" out of metal, wood, glass, wax and leather. This creature allegedly opened the door to Albertus' cell at the Dominican monastery in Cologne, asked visitors what they wanted and even engaged them in polite conversation. The end of the legend was that Albertus' celebrated pupil, Thomas Aquinas, smashed the robot to pieces because he considered it demonic. The Swiss...