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Humorist Calvin Trillin at Beloit College, Beloit, Wis.: I have divided up the United States into two sections. One section is the part of the U.S. that had major league baseball before the Second World War. That's the ancien U.S., and the rest of the U.S. is the rest of the U.S. That's the second part that's called the expansion-team U.S. -- where we stand today. The way you can tell the difference is that the old U.S. still has regular European ethnic neighborhoods, and in an Italian restaurant in the ancien U.S., the waiters have names...
Psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert Coles at Beloit College in Wisconsin: "The people who gave us America were people who stood up and said, 'I believe what I believe, and I'm ready to die for that faith.' Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln? The only thing that makes this...
...Beloit, Ripon and Lawrence University in Wisconsin; Grinnell, Coe and Cornell in Iowa; Carleton, St. Olaf and Macalester in Minnesota; Lake Forest, Knox and Monmouth in Illinois; and Colorado College in Colorado...
...needed him then We could use him now, an advertisement states Beloit wants to find people willing to commit $1 million or more to our kind of school, "according to an advertisement...
Roger H. Hull, president of Beloit, notes that the school's budget is balanced and its endowment stands at $10 million. He adds, however, that the campaign "is a way to try accomplish some special projects"--such as higher faculty salaries, new athletic facilities, and the creation of a new student center in a building that's been around for awhile-Pearson's Hall...