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...final week of college brings bandstands and graduates and pulchritude to the Yard. It makes new graduates out of time-honored students and it annually imports a certain select group of great men to be graced with new titles and immediately released to the world even fuller-fledged legends than before they came. For this is the time when academic sanctity deserts the cloisters of the American college, and when the square-cut military jaw or the hardened business countenance is to be seen under the mortar board of the Doctor of Letters. Generals, statesmen, merchants, lawyers, and engineers have...
...Wagner said she was “excited” and “honored” to be chosen for the select group...
...Average Joe.” When I heard he returned to redeem himself, naturally I became hooked. Compared to “The Apprentice,” the concept is a little more blatant: A beautiful woman endures several weeks at the hands of a select group of unattractive men who are then removed with great haste upon the introduction of a smaller unit of pedigree gents. Luckily for Adam, this time the roles were reversed...
Lampe said most students learned of the change last Monday, when the school officially announced its policy change. A select group of student leaders was informed before the weekend, Lampe said...
...something to be relished. It brings us troops of little kids tirelessly running through sprinklers and playing stickball and basketball, and it also gives us the non-alcohol-related courage to challenge—and thoroughly demolish—such kids in any sport we allow them to select...