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Monthly Archives: December 2011
I Tell a Tale That I Heard Told
“Mithridates, he died old.” These closing lines from a famous section of Housman’s “A Shropshire Lad” conclude reflections on the importance of facing up to the parts of life that can be very hard to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond Smoke and Mirrors, Bloodlands, Burton Richter, Christian Gauss Award, From Battlefields Rising, humanities, John Churchill, Liberal Education, PBK, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards, Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Randall Fuller, Timothy Snyder
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Hang on to Your Hat
In the summer of 1955, my family piled into our blue and white Oldsmobile and drove from Arkansas to Virginia, for a history lesson. At Colonial Williamsburg, my parents bought me one of those three-cornered hats I’d seen on the … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Colonial Williamsburg, humanities, John Churchill, Liberal Education, PBK, Phi Beta Kappa, symbolism
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Capitalization and its Discontents
It started with a dog. To be precise, it started with a Labrador retriever. Or a Labrador Retriever. I got called out, in the friendliest, kindest, most apologetic — albeit, insistent — manner over what one might or might not … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalization, correct usage, humanities, John Churchill, Liberal Education, PBK, Phi Beta Kappa, Spelling, words
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