Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jedediah Purdy, 24, may have been born in the 1970s, but he grew up in the 1870s. Home was a hillside West Virginia farm plowed by a team of Percheron draft horses. School was his parents' kitchen, his neighbors' fields. Town was a country crossroads with two stores, and entertainment a new book from the library. And though the young man with the Old Testament name and the Mark Twain upbringing later went on to study at Harvard and Yale, mixing with the privileged and the trend-conscious, his heart remained in the hills, beneath the oaks...
...students choosing Harvard and financial aid over a third-tier public school like the University of Virginia, the difference in tuition was made back in a little over two years...
...Fungaroli, who attended George Mason University in Virginia, said that while she was pleased with her education, in the end she learned she needed the cache of a high-end degree...
Rounding out the freshman trifecta at the wide receiver spot is Virginia native Carl Morris, who says it is difficult to adjust to college-level football...
...although Harvard was his second choice behind the University of Virginia, he begins the season behind senior Terence Patterson at wide receiver and says he loves Harvard...