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This ultimate scrapbook suggests an inevitable question: Why would anyone want to know the Lord's Prayer in Maltese, the age at which John Stuart Mill began learning Greek (three) or any of the other variegated trivia Bryan has gathered? Answer: to enrich the mind, astound friends and amuse dinner-table partners. The latter objective receives its own 19-entry chapter, in which Novelist Virginia Faulkner's advice is cited: "I ask the gentleman on my right, 'Are you a bed-wetter?', and when we have exhausted that, I remark to the gentleman on my left, 'You know, I spit...
...materialize. Despite record income and low fuel costs, tuition is still being raised next year by 6.9 percent, nearly twice the rate of inflation. Students will still be asked to accumulate five-figure debts, to work at jobs that pay well rather than those that benefit the community or enrich the mind. Those without the courtesy to be truly poor or very rich will continue to have difficulties. It seems almost obscene that this goes on when so much money is around, but then, that's big bucks education. The commitment to students is so deep, you could almost...
...effects of intercollegiate athletics on the Harvard community. He contrasts the "frivolous" support of the student body for our athletic teams to the "non-frivolous" student activities undertaken by the remaining (presumably serious) students at this university. He rests on the unspoken truism that sports do little to enrich the spectator because they do not stimulate the mind. It is very hard to successfully argue the merits of football against ballet, hockey against drama, sweat against culture. I will not attempt to compare a wrestling match to a pas de deux, but I would submit that one who views either...
...offering will enrich Chairman William Gates, 30, the boy wonder who dropped his undergraduate studies at Harvard in 1975 to help start Microsoft, which produces best-selling business software for IBM and Apple personal computers as well as the popular computer game Flight Simulator. If the stock goes for $19, his 45% holding in Microsoft will be worth $211 million...
...trying to see how I can enrich undergraduate life," Epps said. "I've always hoped extracurricular life will complement curricular life...