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Transforming Loyalties at Princeton

Walter Kirn, in his autobiographical Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever, describes the post-modern English major experience and explains the nature of the conversion process...

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Fighting Skull & Bones with Foucault

A bit of Yale architectural decoration. Mark Edmundson (who teaches English at UVA) has a very amusing, slightly rueful memoir in the Chronicle of Higher Education recalling his youthful animosity to...

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Some Tastes Differ

Unknown, Sir Walter Raleigh, 1593, University of North Carolina. [In the Fall of 1944, at the Bird & Bush, C.S. Lewis told J.R.R. Tolkien and the other Inklings about an elderly lady he knew]:...

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