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Harvard was the No. 4 seed (and placed in Pool A, along with No. 1 Slippery Rock and No. 8 Princeton), so that meant that the Crimson would be the proverbial guinea pig...
Nettles and Applewhite set up shop in Los Angeles with their cosmology of Jesus and UFOs. In the beginning, Applewhite and Nettles called their group Guinea Pig, with Nettles being "Guinea" and Applewhite being "Pig." Very soon, however, the group was called Human Individual Metamorphosis, and Applewhite was "Bo" and Nettles "Peep"--a reference to their roles as shepherds. They were then called "Him" and "Her" and finally the musical...
...from Duluth, Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Fargo-Moorhead, Madison, Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. We wave at the trains as they go by, and we always have a good time regardless of what happens on the field. Between innings, a man walks up to the home-plate ump, leading a pig with a bag of fresh baseballs on its back. Once, a player from an opposing team was offended by the pig and turned to the umpire and said, "That is so bush league," and the ump said, "This is the bush leagues...
When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976, the base tuition was $3,790. I paid the bill with a combination of cash from my parents, wages from my summer job as a park supervisor and from a school job cleaning pig sperm from laboratory beakers, and a bank loan guaranteed by New York State. I still managed to have a pretty good time. In addition to learning to recite Pushkin in Russian, I got to experience such wonders of campus life as seeing a friend jump up on a barroom table and pull her bra out through...
...health insurance and personal expenses, such as travel between school and home, and the actual total--as Penn recently informed students accepted for early admission--comes to $31,582. This is real money. In 1975 my summer job alone covered a significant chunk of my senior-year costs. The pig sperm was gravy. If my three daughters decide to go to Penn--or Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Swarthmore, Brown, Stanford, M.I.T., Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Chicago or Johns Hopkins--the entire bill for 12 years of school will exceed $350,000. And that's assuming tuition never rises another penny...