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...Alumni were thought of as racoon-skin-capped, musket-carrying people who only showed up for football games--and thank God the stadium's across the river," he says. But that attitude changed with a new batch of senior faculty. Shultz adds, and when Dartmouth and Cornell started alumni programs the Harvard alumni office begn to work on a comprehensive proposal...
...York State, cites examples of the diverse roles played throughout the colonial era. While Iroquois women determined important Indian issues, early Dutch settlers respected and encouraged their women's skills as traders. Revolutionary women not only accompanied their husbands into battle but often took up the musket themselves...
North Church and at Lexington and Concord, Mass., where 200 years ago the Minutemen drove off the redcoats with the shots heard round the world. Fifes shrilled, drums rolled and the sharp crackle of musket fire sounded across the New England towns as the skirmishes were re-enacted for the benefit of 150,000 spectators. The President reviewed an honor guard of Minutemen on the Lexington Battle Green and placed wreaths to honor both the American and British dead at Concord. He told the celebrators that they had given him "a new spirit and a new strength about our country...
...many Visigoths likely to ruin the already declining quality of written history, substitute accounting for breadth of vision and insight, and eventually relegate old-school historians to peripheral pursuits like intellectual history. In the past, the humanists have managed to hold off the invasion with light scholarly musket fire. Statistics and averages are misleading. (Everyone knows the story of the nonswimming statistician who drowned in trying to wade a river with an average depth of three feet.) Sociologists are well known for expending a king's ransom on graph paper, conferences and field work to prove something that everybody...
...Today, parity is running at a relatively high mark of 80. Considering that farm productivity has changed drastically in six decades, the notion of fixing farm prices to achieve a certain parity point is about as sensible as an attempt to set the defense budget on the basis of musket prices. The Administration wisely hopes to abandon parity in setting new price floors...