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...Oldest known pencil in the world, owned by Count von Faber-Castell...
...views our state's teachers (and those training to become teachers) as little more than frat boys to be disciplined until their organization can be disbanded (I bet the Massachusetts Teacher Association has the same reputation in the governor's office that Delta did at fictional Faber College). Of course, in the movie it is Dean Wormer who says, "I'll decide what's fair and what's not fair...
...current teachers with unfair exams will only drive away the best and the brightest from the profession. If Cellucci's "new way" consists of unreasonable secrecy and a constant barrage of uninformed insults, maybe we need a new dean/governor, one who remembers the not-all-that ironic motto of Faber: "Knowledge is Good." Susannah B. Tobin '00 is a classics concentrator in Lowell House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...Faber and Faber...
...than an aggressive assertion of distinction or superiority. As much as their violent history has pulled them apart, the English and the Irish do at least speak the same language. This helps explain why Heaney did not necessarily resent his inclusion is an anthology of "English" literature compiled by Faber and Faber, Co. Though he did write a poem that asserted his passport was definitely green (the color of the Irish passport), Heaney did not think the book's editors intended to commandeer his writing: "I don't think they were Tally-Ho imperialists out to appropriate wee Seamus...