Word: rumplestiltskin
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...it’s never looked brighter in Easton, Pennsylvania. Perhaps next year, the Leopards will defeat the Crimson when the game returns to Lafayette’s Fisher Field. If you happen to be in the crowd watching, just make sure you say hello to Snow White and Rumplestiltskin...
...their proprietary research. "This is a highly commercial undertaking," says TIME correspondent Dick Thompson, "and most of the tests to date have failed." Still, companies that do hit on the right combination are spinning so much genetic straw into pure gold, and they don't want their competitors learning Rumplestiltskin's secrets on their dime. For the NIH, the task is to find a way to keep the public safe without giving away the company store...
...very succinctly about the value of the intellect. He had suggested that the development of a University Library was essential to creating the community which Cambridge ought to be, and that the development of an individual library was a sign of being educated. And without really denying these values, Rumplestiltskin was a little puzzled by what these things implied about living, since he could hardly see that they implied anything...
This situation Rumplestiltskin could only explain as an evidence of the University's amazing confidence in its own vision of what a man should become. Surely the University must be little less than fanatical if it would continue to demand that students follow a program and seek an attitude which it was patently impossible to give them. And surely they must think this ideal highly desirable if they felt it was desirable to convince the vast majority of students that they were less than they ought to be because they could not attain this ideal...
...time he had graduated, Rumplestiltskin had learned only one thing about the University's effort to educate him: that neither he nor the University knew enough about him to proscribe a system for making him over into a new "educated" image. Indeed, he found, the most important thing that had happened to him at Harvard had nothing to do with the information he had acquired, or the courses he had taken, but rather simply that he had become four years older in good company...