In this Quick Hits, Associate Professor of Philosophy Lee Cole talks Earl Grey cocktails, Joni Mitchell, and his ban from board games. Do you like breakfast, lunch, or dinner best? If I may shift the paradigm here: brunch. You’ve worked up an appetite but aren’t exhausted from the day. It’s a meal at which...
No nation can create a lasting society without the proper implementation of strategy, said Hal Brands in a lecture on his book “The New Makers of Modern Strategy” at a luncheon hosted by the Center for Military History and Grand Strategy Oct.17. “Nobody can do very well for very long without it,” Brands said. “And...
What’s worse: finals or midterms? Jason Gehrke, History: “Finals week is definitely better than midterms because all I have to do is talk about history with my friends.” Mardi Billman, Chemistry: “Midterms are difficult because you all look so stressed and sad. Finals are nice because of the finality of it and once it’s finished,...
A historic 1940s steam train will arrive in Hillsdale, hailing from Indiana, at 12 p.m. Oct. 7 and Oct. 8 with a three hour layover in the city each day. Steam locomotive No. 765 will arrive on the train tracks across from the Hillsdale Brewing Company both days, said Heather Tritchka ‘98, senior admissions interviewer...
Sept. 2, 1945 — the Japanese officially surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. World War II, the deadliest conflict in human history, finally came to a close. Seventy-eight years later, Victory over Japan Day is a date typically forgotten by Americans and overshadowed by controversy. At its core, however, V-J Day is a...