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...changes will cause about as much outrage as would the dissappearance from House dining halls of Cap'n Crunch, but for those of us out here in Alumniland, it's all we have left. We could judge the approach of winter by how far along we were in the alphabet. Now we must revert to the calendar. And we shall be forced, like everyone else, to consult a schedule to find out which game is next--a particularly undesirable development in view of the condition of my own schedule...
...inspired. First, he wrote down all the letters of the alphabet so we could check rhymes: aime, bime, cime, dime, eime, fime,... Then he wrote down all the names and things we could think of relating to blindness: Moshe Dayan, Mo Udall, cornea-retina-pupil, eyeball-to-eyeball, I ball and you ball and you can't even...
...alphabet came in handy?) The refugee, Joe, "a girl would giggle and I'd turn red, a boy would laugh and I'd bust his head; the worst-thing-my-daddy-ever-did-was-name-me-Joe" Dalton piped...
...unravel that alphabet soup, Author-Physician Michael Crichton (The Great Train Robbery, The Andromeda Strain) recently looked over some back issues of the New England Journal of Medicine. Crichton, who wrote novels even during his days at Harvard Medical School (class of 1969), was appalled by what he read. The style, he reported in the Journal, was "as dense, impressive and forbidding as possible." Examples...
...rather like our own children do today. In colonial America girls had dolls, crude or simple ones, elaborately dressed and expensive ones. Boys rolled marbles and obtained jackknives as they became older. Both boys and girls had drums and hobbyhorses, tops and small animals carved out of wood, and alphabet blocks, not unlike the kind our own children still use. And colonial children played the same games some 20th century American children do: hopscotch, tag, blindman's buff, dominoes, cards. Slowly, as with our own boys and girls, hobbies, diversions or games became unintentionally educational in nature, as children...