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...keep new ones from joining. Priests were kings. While nuns lived communally, the priests lived privately in a large house with no one to answer to, unless you count the usually elderly housekeeper. Nuns rarely saw the priests other than at Mass or on a ceremonial visit to the classroom to hand out report cards. The priests always had a roll of bills in their pocket and a big black car to take the kids out for a spin. Sister Joan remembered how the nuns envied the priests their freedom, only in retrospect seeing how they might have misused...
...Club is a fun and informative read, capable of both making the reader laugh and of delivering profound statements. In many instances, the novel serves as a light satire of British institutions, gently poking fun at their interesting idiosyncrasies. A particularly funny example of this is a classroom scene in which a student asks the teacher if a poet whom the class is studying is gay. After berating the student, accusing him of having a “grubby and ultimately rather banal little mind” and insisting that “the artistic temperament has no gender...
...enters a second-floor Sever Hall classroom, Rosenfeld waves cheerily to students and stops to chat with some...
...schools will certainly look to our transcripts as an indication of how we performed in college. But for the most part—and especially in terms of our own personal growth during these four formative years—it is how we spend our time outside of the classroom, and who we spend our time with, that better illustrates our achievement and growth at school...
...identity and special mission of the liberal arts education.” Whatever that “special mission” may be, perhaps the editorial staff is a bit too stiff and dated to remember and appreciate the significance of collegiate life outside of the classroom. The experience of competing with an athletic team or playing in an orchestra or writing for a newspaper does not hamper our liberal arts education, but rather enhances and intensifies...