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Though the Hunt-Lenox Globe is one of only two known relics of the Age of Discovery to bear this landmark medieval phrase, there are myriad examples of maps on which stretches of sea or far-off edges of civilization are marked …
There is a particular kind of silence that begins to settle in the aftermath of a breakup. Rather than a peaceful, meditative silence, it is the silence of absence, brought about by time suddenly emptied, by the hollow outline of …
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
I’ve lived by these words since I was 13, when my grandmother left a collection of Mary Oliver’s poems on my pillow. I read the whole thing, cover …
When I went home after my first year, someone I had known for years asked me a deceptively simple question: “Who are you?” I answered the way most people would: generically listing what I love, what I do, what I …
Are we overscheduled? Short answer: Yes. Capital Y. Somewhere between another planned meal and sprinting to my third class of the day, I started thinking about when rest started to feel like something we had to earn. When scheduling became …
If I said a child fled with his family to a foreign land to escape hostility and persecution, the story would be as old as time. I could be referring to baby Jesus, who fled with his parents to Egypt, …
All of the following information is taken from a training given to the peer educators by Dr. Jason Kilmer of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.
As Ivies approaches, many students are counting down …
The Trump administration is waging a war against universities, civil liberties and democratic norms.
Bowdoin is in the crosshairs, and yet the College has not resisted, hoping that we can escape unnoticed. This strategy has committed Bowdoin to staying silent, …
“And why should we go hunting for a substitute for youthful desires, when youthful desires never fail? A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last? What need have we of repose …
When I speak, I speak with a distinct lack of twang. I pronounce my r’s with full rhoticity, my vowels are never lengthened, my cadence is not melodic. When I speak, I speak with a plain American rhythm, the likes …
