tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post6949370205718178670..comments2024-02-19T20:45:03.110-05:00Comments on Red Mug, Blue Linen : Not so wild a dream iiiLaurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-28602629418635493482011-05-17T21:37:04.486-04:002011-05-17T21:37:04.486-04:00I went to a college which realised, as soon as its...I went to a college which realised, as soon as its earliest students began pitching cannonballs down its corridors at night, it was hopeless to constrain youth. So it decided to make it incurable. It sounds as if there's one in Virginia which has mastered the revenge of the great college. :)Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-53376169724660921482011-05-17T21:32:27.308-04:002011-05-17T21:32:27.308-04:00There is an inscription over a Roanoke College dor...There is an inscription over a Roanoke College dormitory that<br />reads, "We are not here for a long time; we are here for a good time".<br />The scoundrel credited with this statement was almost kicked out of<br />school as the story goes...but as an alumnus funneled quite a bit of<br />money back into the institution, which in turn clouded the college's<br />recollection of his transgressions - or perhaps vandalism is simply in<br />the eye of the beholder. In a rare moment of insight the college saw<br />that a use of time and not place resulted in the kinds of alumni that<br />would later support their alma mater financially. I suppose it is as<br />true at Princeton as it is anywhere that the halls of a freshman dorm<br />echo with requests for mischief, to which the Roanoke College board of<br />visitors has carved into stone, "Permission granted".James Adamnoreply@blogger.com