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Ticket prices for this year's game are set by the Athletic Department at $4 for students, $8 for general admission. The prices set by secondhand purveyors of ducats are considerably more variable...
...Carl Stanley Flanders' Yale football career. He was a large man, six feet four and over two hundred pounds, nicknamed "The Big Swede," and his playing ability earned him a spot on Walter Camp's Second Team All American Squad. My brothers and I learned this all secondhand; my grandfather died in an oxygen tent fighting pneumonia, his body ravaged by time and too much alcohol, when my father was still a young man. By all accounts, he led an active and unusual life: prospecting in the Far West, hunting trips in Canada, a lucrative law practice in Boston...
Concentrated Misery. Odysseys and exiles-melancholy rather than exuberant-are the motifs of this book. At the age of 17, Sevareid and a high school friend traveled the 2,200 miles from the Mississippi River to Hudson's Bay in a secondhand 18-ft. canoe to prove that two red-blooded American boys could connect the waters of the Gulf of Mex ico to the North Atlantic. As Sevareid remembered it 15 years later, the expedition was "sheer, concentrated misery." For years afterward, "a visit to the woods produced a moment of nausea...
...would not change the part of the code that says a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal. As for the toleration clause, if a cadet directly knows of wrongdoing, he would still be required to report it. If he hears secondhand, he would not be required. My notion of the way an honor code should function is what happens at the University of Virginia. At initiation, students will be told, "All right, ladies and gentlemen, we don't lie, cheat or steal, and now we'll talk about your curriculum." At West Point, the whole thing...
...life works. She's come straight from Transcendental Meditation, and she's just here to seek further enlightenment. Ron observes she is full of shit. He launches into a banal ten-hour lecture on est epistemology. Most of what we know consists of received ideas and secondhand experiences. We see the world through a glaze of beliefs and ideas. Thinking is crap-the yammering in the back of our heads. Ron wiggles his fingers behind his head to show us how foolish thinking...