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Take a one-day vacation
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Take a one-day vacation

Here’s an idea for your next break: fly to a new city for the day. My sister Chloe and I did this on Monday. We left Chicago at 6 a.m. and returned at 11 p.m., visiting Boston in between. It’s possible to see a lot of a city in 12 well-planned hours.  We visited Paul...

Charger golf travels to So-Cal for training trip
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Charger golf travels to So-Cal for training trip

Over the weekend, the Hillsdale College golf team  made a tour of southern California to escape the Michigan winter and start gearing up for the spring tournament season. The Chargers played qualifying rounds at Jack Nicklaus Course at PGA West, the Stadium Course at PGA West, and La Quinta Golf Course in Palm Springs, California....

Office Hours: Pilgrimage to Israel: When Biblical passages become reality
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Office Hours: Pilgrimage to Israel: When Biblical passages become reality

I don’t envy my students for much. They can keep their Hell Week and their Hillsdating. Yet they’ve made me jealous in one particular way: Loads of them have jetted off to Israel, traveled through the Holy Land, and come back with stories, knowledge, and—in the case of the now-married Brendan and Katie Clarey—matching tattoos....

Beat winter blues with a weekend excursion
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Beat winter blues with a weekend excursion

Getting the Winter Blues? Aching to get off campus? Feeling a little trapped in Hillsdale? While Hillsdale often seems “in the middle of nowhere,” its central location allows for great day trips to cities nearby. Getting off campus doesn’t need to be an elaborate road trip. Larger cities are just a little over an hour...

Hillsdale Academy takes largest group ever to Europe
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Hillsdale Academy takes largest group ever to Europe

Students and adults from Hillsdale Academy recently traveled to Europe for the school’s biennial overseas trip. In the Academy’s largest group ever, 41 students, 32 parents, and five staff members traveled to Greece and Italy for 12 days during the school’s spring break, March 28 to April 9. “We take everyone who wants to go,”...