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Animals were not less worthy of Sainte Foy's attention, but it was not so much for the sake of the animal as for that of the owner that she performed such miracles.... The second type of personal miracles that made Sainte Foy essentially unique were called joca ("jests").... In these joca Sainte Foy overlooked no detail, no matter how small, or seemingly unimportant.... Sainte Foy helped one of [the 11th-century author] Bernard's pupils find a prayer book that he had lost in a forest near Angers. She filled a gourd with wine to refresh several...
...learned later from an insider that I'd actually failed my orals, though I'm not supposed to know this. Children, for god's sake, don't doubt your elders. I may be the first Harvard student to get two summa readings and a prize for a separate essay and yet fail his orals. I'm still graduating honors, but not before being forced to realize what a flop I'll be at cocktail parties. As of now I'm unemployed, but I think I have a future writing Salada tea bags...
Evidently scholarship is supposed to turn a profit. Granted, universities must be cognizant of their fiscal responsibilities. Yet a university is historically and ideally a preserve for generating and protecting knowledge for its own sake. A university cannot be overly concerned with the balance sheet if it is to meet its other obligations as an institution of higher learning which provides facilities for teaching and research...
...School of Arts and Sciences, never took the degree. Excellence is the society's reason for being, and excellence is Harvard's reward. Says Dreben: "With all the compromises we make, there has to be true support of pure scholarship, the inquiry into knowledge for its own sake, faith in human reason and the human mind. That's what it's all about...
...Jenny, for Christ's sake, how can I read John Stuart Mill when every single second I'm dying to make love...