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...First of all, there is a tradition," Yale Coach Tim Taylor says. "We were among the earliest teams to play hockey in the country...
Although they live in older buildings--the earliest colleges date back to the 14th century--British students live better than their American counterparts, fellows say. "I find the idea of sharing [college] accomodations pretty horrible," said Chirgwin. "Living in [Cambridge] University, I had either one or two rooms which were not shared in any way, and what I had was normal." Housing is guaranteed all three years at Cambridge and during the first and third years by Oxford...
...Rico. The young Marino grew up in a cultural and religious tradition derived from the early Catholic French and Spanish settlers, and he still lights up when he talks about Creole gumbos and rice. "I took in my faith like my mother's milk," he says. "Some of my earliest recollections are of my family kneeling around the bed praying to Mary, when I was too small even to be really a part...
This past fall, I was informed that due to overcrowding I would have no chance of moving into my house until next year at the earliest. After hearing this news, I went to University Hall and asked if I would be allowed to transfer to a house that had space. The Housing officer told me that I had not spent the necessary two terms of residence in a residential house to be allowed to transfer interhouse. I was thus stuck with living off-campus for another of my few years at Harvard because I had chosen a crowded house...
...great paradox tormented Stone as he confronted the Greeks. Athens was the glory of Hellas, "the earliest society where freedom of thought and its expression flourished on a scale never known before, and rarely equaled since." Yet Athenian democracy also put Socrates on trial for speaking his mind and voted to execute him for his "crimes." This horrified Stone, and, he writes, "shook my Jeffersonian faith in the common man." The Trial of Socrates is the result of his effort to understand, if not excuse, how Athens could have besmirched its good name and that of democracy by killing Socrates...