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...ideal, but to be honest, they give you enough leeway to have my pet turtle. There’s not enforcement for small things, so there’s a middle ground.” Galster admits that his House tutor is well aware of Franklin??s presence...

Author: By Anna M. Yeung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meet My Little Pet | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

...Though Franklin??s keen mind might immediately produce an aphorism from Poor Richard’s Almanac on the collapse of Wall Street in October, one of the other guests lingering at the table might be left utterly befuddled by the cataclysmic events of our time. Adam Smith, founder of free market economics, might query his own writings from The Wealth of Nations regarding government intervention in capitalism. When asked by the waiter for his order, the eccentric Smith replies with a knowing smile: perseverance. But it is plausible that the confusion of our economic meltdown would lead...

Author: By Howard A. Zucker | Title: Banquet for a Better World: | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...have a toolbox of knowledge if they are to build a better tomorrow. Distant in thought and dabbling on a laptop, he probably wonders why race and class discrepancies still exist in childhood learning. While Edgar informs Horace Mann about Teach for America, the waiter takes his order, pragmatism. Franklin??s eyes consider a second entrée, but just then the professional voice of Dr. Osler comments upon Benjamin’s expanding girth...

Author: By Howard A. Zucker | Title: Banquet for a Better World: | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...lived through the years of the Great Depression, and resourcefulness meant frugality. Benjamin Franklin??s famous words “A penny saved is a penny earned” was her personal credo. Even several years after her death, she still receives coupons for Victoria’s Secret mailed to our address (who knew...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Blanket Statement | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...Benjamin Franklin??s first rule in reducing a great empire to a small one was that a “great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Nobody Could See This Coming | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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