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Changing the Core is a priority for Rosalie Thede ’06, who will serve on the General Education committee. She said the Core provides a good way to ensure each student gets a broad education, but the requirements should be more flexible...
...Lamp for Nightfall, he un-limbers the old routine in a Maine setting. This time it is the old Yankee stock that is going to pot, steadily losing ground to the more vital "Canucks" and "square-heads." Take the Emerson family, Author Caldwell's prime exhibit: Thede Emerson. richest man in Clearwater, has $200,000 in the bauk, but will he let his son Howard go off to college in Boston? No, he keeps him at home doing chores so he won't have to get a hired man. Thede hates the French Canadians, but he is letting...
...feels so strongly drawn to brother Howard that it is all she can do to keep away from him. With Jean married at last and with nothing to look forward to but chores, Howard does the natural thing: he commits suicide with his father's shotgun. When old Thede finds him, he lets Howard have another shell in the chest for good luck. Wife Rosa walks out on Thede, and when last seen, he is holed up alone in his kitchen in dead of winter, lighting a lamp for the window to show the world that the Clearwater Emersons...