On November 22, 1889, Gertrude Jones of Tennyson, Indiana penciled her name into her copy of Complete Arithmetic, a math curriculum book in use at the time. In 2016, the book is now in my possession. It smells delightful, if you’re into old books. Below is Gertrude’s lovely cursive: Complete Arithmetic’s introduction describes the use
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If you want to know where the United States will be in a generation, a look at the attitudes and ideas of today’s college freshmen might give some insight. Yesterday, the Higher Education Research Institute released their annual freshman survey. According to the Washington Post, one of the most interesting things found in the survey
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In recent years, it’s become a common complaint of women everywhere that there aren’t any decent men around. Such complaints may be well-founded, particularly as reports increasingly affirm that some groups of women will have greater difficulty finding a spouse. But when looking for a spouse, do women sometimes have an ill-informed view of what
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Among the top news stories today is the historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill. It marks the first official meeting between the head of the Roman Catholic Church and a patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church since the Great Schism almost one thousand years ago. For those of you who were taught dates
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Given the fervency with which today’s Democrat and Republican presidential candidates are campaigning for the White House, one might reasonably believe that the highest office in the land is quite a prize. But before Trump, Sanders, Cruz, or Clinton take the oath of office, they might want to consider what some of their predecessors had
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Never has the stock market soared higher nor the supply of affordable books been cheaper. Lucky or cursed, let us examine the latter–about which T.S. Eliot asks a great question but falls short in his reply. I confess, I adore them. I thrill to their touch; my heart is aroused by their scent. If old
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