Thanks to COVID-19, Associate Professor of English Patricia Bart’s students get to enjoy the outdoors while learning about great books. “I just decided, until we have to be driven in, let’s just sit outside,” she said. “I’m not overly worried about getting coronavirus myself or other people getting it. But I figure, why get it?” ...
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QUICK HITS: James Holleman
If you could personally attend one of the performances of any music composer throughout history, who would you choose? I would attend a concert in Vienna of a Beethoven symphony. Although I would have to say, too, if I could hear Ella Fitzgerald live, that would be amazing. If you could be in “Guinness World...
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Alumnus’ journey to Oval Office
Philip Wegmann ’15 strides into the historic Willard Hotel clad in jeans, a yellow T-shirt, and a worn leather motorcycle jacket. It’s a Thursday afternoon in Washington, D.C. and under different circumstances, Wegmann would be dressed in a suit and tie, breezing in after a press briefing at the White House. “Because of COVID, they’ve...
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Treasures in books: student learns the art of used book sale
Two men, armed with plastic gloves and headlamps, faced a dumpster brimming with the buried treasure they’d been searching for: books. Senior Daniel Rognlie and Evan Gage ’14 spent their summer journeying into “book mines,” dumpsters behind retail bookstores filled with cast-off books. They dug into the stacks of books and filled their milk...
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Miles Smith left South for conservative ‘Disney World’
Getting a job at Hillsdale College out of graduate school is like going on your first date with Jennifer Lawrence, according to Visiting Professor of History Miles Smith. He said as much with his Southern twang and a matching merry twinkle in his eye. When Smith was offered a job at Hillsdale in 2014 just...