During a banquet in honor of Christopher Columbus, a young Spanish nobleman pointed out that if Columbus hadn’t found the New World, someone else would have. According to legend, Columbus picked up an egg and asked the party which one of them could make it stand on its end. Every man at the table tried...
I am all for college football and always have been. In fact, I prefer it to NFL football. But I see problems with the emerging megaconference landscape. The rising formula makes sense in terms of markets, and there are certainly big winners financially in big football. Why wouldn’t the University of Southern California and University...
When I sat down for my first internship lunch in Washington, D.C., the last thing I expected to need was knowledge of sports. I had brushed up on the news, studied politics, and went shopping for business professional outfits. But no one at lunch was talking about President Biden or inflation. They were talking about...
There’s an old Hillsdale legend that the stone walls of the Slayton Arboretum aren’t only built of local stones. An observant eye may notice that some of the rocks aren’t rocks in the traditional sense at all–and it was long-rumored that the walls contained various non-native fossils and gemstones. Thanks to the work of Professor...
Students of local schools receive a day off to attend county fair. When the Hillsdale County Fair rolls around, students in Hillsdale and Jonesville wake up to Ferris Bueller’s dream: a day without school and a reason to have fun. The difference is that they have the administration’s blessing. It is traditional for Hillsdale Academy,...