What follows is a rather eccentric, partially annotated list of books that I recommend for children and young adults.  And adults.  I still read them all myself ( Read more... )

As the archivist at Hamilton College, I've been helping people preparing for the upcoming Kirkland College reunion by finding artifacts and photos of various people and events from the ten years of Kirkland's history, 1968-1978. I've noticed that these materials evoke nostalgia in me--if you can have nostalgia for something that wasn't your own ( Read more... )

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For four years they would live here. After that, unless somebody made a prodigious and possibly miraculous effort, they would scatter to the four corners of the world, their fellowship broken, and do what all of them had done to be here in this room now: find new friends. It seemed wasteful. Perhaps they could buy an island somewhere ( Read more... )

“There isn’t much they can do about your mind, is there?” she said, thereby revealing, Janet thought, an interesting idea of the purposes and effects of education. p. 188 ( Read more... )

As far as she could tell, studying at Blackstock was a full-time job, and nourishing a beginning love affair was a job and a half. …. Was it possible that when people objected to coeducational colleges, it was this sort of problem, and not an impertinent and disgusting desire to police other people’s morals, that really moved them? …. Whether ( Read more... )