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...believe I was relatively close to the dean's list part of the time." Question: "Could you estimate where you stood in your class from the top or the bottom?" Answer: "No, sir, I never checked on that." Fulbright, Rhodes scholar and onetime president of his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, was incredulous. Asked he: "You weren't interested in trying to learn?" (In fact, Yale does not rank its students...
...alumnae of the College are concerned over any threat to Radcliffe's independence, Jordan also pointed out. Most alumnae harbor a "fierce loyalty to this symbol that is Radcliffe," he asserted, and would regret any infringement on the status of their alma mater...
...watchful eye of a benign oligarchy (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Duke Power Co. and the "textile aristocracy"), North Carolina has been developed with uncommon imagination. Business leaders have endowed well-paid professorial chairs, set up string-free foundations, protected professors back at the alma mater from the political censorship common to state-supported Southern schools...
...Kallinikoff-Symphony #2 in A minor (Per); Bach-Chromatic Fantasy & Fuge in D minor (Per); Pergolesi-Stabat Mater (D); Mozart-Quartet #14 in G major (C); Bernstein-Age of Anxiety (C); Handel-Trio Sonata in E for Flute, Violin, Bassoon, Harpsichord (HSLP...
Referring to Thompson's alma mater, which banned football, one heckler in the crowd asked, "Mr. Thompson, what do they do at Chicago on Saturday afternoons?" Again, Thompson's reply was ready: "I guess they sleep...