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...Though those may be (hopefully) unapt words for Minnesotans anticipating Jesse "The Mind" Ventura's new term as governor of the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes (and by the way, his real name is James Janos), it would seem to behoove them to get ready for something. Rough-and-tumble populism? Muscular, mustachioed libertarianism? Ross Perot in tights? Let's take a look at the Ventura canon...
...Bacon, enrollment was limited to 12 underprivileged boys who had "learned their accidence without books and can wright indifferently." The rule excluded Sir Nicholas' famous son, young Francis Bacon. Parents were required to furnish their boys with a bow and three arrows and if their "child shall prove unapt for learning . . . ye shall take him away; and again, if he prove apt, then that ye shall suffer him to remain till he be completely learned...
...difficult when an individualistic and independent college is suddenly changed into a military camp to change at the same time the characteristics of its individualistic and independent students. Harvard men are notably unapt to bow without reason to constituted authority; in that differing not vastly from other college men, or from non-college men of the younger successful class, for that matter...
DEAR SIR.- My consultations with some of our graduates this morning resulted in the following final decision: Harvard must play Yale at New York on Thanksgiving day (?) forfeit their championship game scheduled for that time and place. Yale' position on that question is unapt table and will remain so. Yours truly; WILLIAM H. CORBIN...
...pout upon the morning, are unapt...
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