Word: wesleyan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time we, the student body, write a collective letter to our friends at Williams or Swarthmore, Wesleyan or Amherst. It doesn't have to be long, just enough to admit the truth: Liberal-arts colleges, you win. You possess the nation's most innovative minds, the most intellectual student body. You are the stomping grounds for the great thinkers of the next millennium. We, Harvard, will stop trying to lord over you, stop saying that we are better or smarter, because it just isn't true. You can out-think us any day of the week...
...Frank Stanton received an unexpected call asking him to run for Harvard's Board of Overseers, one of the University's two governing boards. What made it even stranger was this was the Ohio Wesleyan graduate's first contact with the country's oldest university...
After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan, Stanton attended Ohio State University for graduate work in experimental psychology...
...manufactured myth, indeed, an ad slogan: "God may have made men, but Samuel Colt made them equal." The notion of guns as instruments of equality ought to seem self-evidently crazy, but for a long time Hollywood--and thus we all--lived by it. Cultural historian Richard Slotkin of Wesleyan University debunks it forever in a recent essay, "Equalizer: The Cult of the Colt." "If we as individuals have to depend on our guns as equalizers," says Slotkin, "then what we will have is not a government of laws but a government of men--armed...
...company that hawked textbooks to college professors. He took the firm public and used the proceeds to invest in then obscure companies such as Lycos and Booklink--the latter of which he would later sell to AOL for $70 million. The soft-spoken, laid-back Connecticut native and Ohio Wesleyan University math major has never looked back, riding the trend to a personal net worth of $2.5 billion. Regrets? He passed up a chance to invest in eBay, the wildly successful Internet auction house. Wetherell figures that oversight cost him $4 billion...