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Several times a year I require my students to memorize a poem. Sometimes I choose for them (say, “Death Be Not Proud,” by John Donne). Sometimes I hand them an anthology and let them choose. I don’t explain rhyme scheme or poetic devices. I only ask that the students know the meaning of every word
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Once, when giving a talk to a room full of young men, I told them to consider asking their parents to hold them accountable for what they did on the internet. Guffaws rippled through the crowd. “Our parents? Is he serious?” It wasn’t that they couldn’t imagine limits being placed on their online activity. (As
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On April 17, 2007, the day after 32 people were killed in the Virginia Tech mass shooting, thousands of students stood in the center of campus for a candlelight vigil. Two trumpeters played “Taps,” while a few of those gathered sang “Amazing Grace.” Apart from that, the crowd was silent. In the aftermath of the tragedy,
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