Several residences on campus dug into their storage closets last week to bring out the Christmas decorations and spruce up their home-away-from-home for the holidays. An unfortunate surprise awaited the women of the Dow House when they found that their Christmas decorations had been ruined by a sewage leak. Senior House Director Esther Ashmore said...
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December 6, 2012July 12, 2022Features
It’s Christmastime in the city
Although retail stores choose to disregard the “no Christmas until after Thanksgiving” rule, most families and even cities wait to put up Christmas decorations until the day after Thanksgiving. This year, however, Christmas décor arrived in Hillsdale before the designated date, but the arrival of the decorations was a welcome one, lighting up the city...
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December 6, 2012July 12, 2022Features
Success for the sciences
Zach Kohley ’06, recently accepted a joint faculty position in the Michigan State University chemistry department and national superconducting laboratory. He will be starting a research program studying nuclear chemistry and also advocates the value of an undergraduate degree in the sciences at Hillsdale. Although Hillsdale College is not widely noted for its science program,...
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December 6, 2012July 12, 2022Culture
Book review: ‘The Story of Ain’t’
In 1961, G. & C. Merriam & Co. released Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, a $3.5 million and 27-year investment that prompted what the late author David Foster Wallace called “the Fort Sumter of the Usage Wars.” Critics clamored to condemn the work as overly permissive. The New York Times demanded it’s recall and Dwight...
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December 6, 2012July 12, 2022Culture
Not my kind of christmas spirit
Handel’s “Messiah” is the epitome of Christmas music. Handel incorporates the purpose of the Messiah’s birth: His death and resurrection, man’s sinful nature, Christ’s forgiveness of sins, the Christian life. His music fits the occasion of the Christmas Holiday because it draws all the components of Christmas together in a great and glorious – albeit...