With two minutes and 15 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter on Saturday, the Hillsdale College Chargers trailed 19-14 in round two of the NCAA Division II playoffs against the Notre Dame College Falcons. Senior quarterback Chance Stewart took the field at the Chargers’ 25 yard line, hoping to guide the team on a game-winning...
Expendability is the byword for most of the Gilded Age’s newspaper verse, and the work of Rose Hartwick Thorpe is no exception. Although her 1867 poem “Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight” was of the most popular ballads of the 19th century, by the late 20th, it faded into obscurity. Thorpe began publishing as a 16-year-old...
After spending Thanksgiving break seeing friends, eating obscene amounts of food, and catching up on sleep, it’s hard to imagine that someone might spend it writing over 6,000 words a day. That’s just what Freshman Sydney Crawford did during Thanksgiving break of her senior year in high school. Crawford is a published author of a...
When Tyler Blanski ’06 was a student at Hillsdale, Matthew Gaetano, professor of history and fellow student, said that Blanski probably didn’t see himself writing multiple books, including his latest, “An Immovable Feast: How I Gave Up Spirituality for a Life of Religious Abundance.” “Believe me, I was extremely unremarkable,” Blanski said. But Blanski said...
Thanksgiving, a holiday known nationwide as a time for family, friends, and phenomenal food, is fast approaching. For many college students, going home to family for the five-day break just isn’t a reality. However, that doesn’t mean that the friends and food need be forgotten! With these easy and inexpensive recipes that utilize...