Word: jeffersonism
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...brainchild of Valerie and Lawrence J. Kelleher, Celebrate America! sells everything from birdhouses in the shape of the Jefferson Memorial to one of the centerpieces used at Ronald Reagan's 75th birthday party--a caricature of a rather young-looking Gipper...
...fledgling journal, named after the Greek mythological hero who escaped from a labyrinth using a self-constructed pair of wings, had an even bigger obstacle to surmount. It had little money, no office and had to be housed in the Jefferson physics laboratories...
Although Harvard professors authored six of the ten essays included in this anniversary issue, Holton says Daedalusis only connected to Harvard on a historical level. It was founded by Holton and originally housed in the Jefferson physics laboratories...
Further, the notion that sitting in a Harvard dorm room studying 15 hours a day (as Cotton noted Thomas Jefferson allegedly did) prepares most students for anything other than a life of elitism and inaction is profoundly faulted. Where is the logic in supposing that people who contentedly spend four years doing nothing but classwork will suddenly rise from their undergraduate stupor and be ready (or qualified) to change the world? And where is the logic in supposing that it is possible to extricate oneself from society for long enough to graduate summa...
...said that Thomas Jefferson, one of America's great university men, studied fifteen hours a day as an undergraduate. One must wonder if campus activists would label him "apathetic." One need not wonder to know Jefferson would join most Harvard students in giving one cheer for apathy. (We are too apathetic to muster the other two cheers...