Word: mottos
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...RECOGNIZE a lot of Ferris Bueller's Day Off the first time you see it. Like Joel in Risky Business, Ferris takes on a catchy motto (though "Life goes fast. If you don't watch out, you could miss it" just can't compare with "Sometimes you just gotta say `What the fuck."') and deceives all authority figures...
...where everyone is supposed to go to college. Ignorance, televised superstition, intolerance, race hatred, the discarding of the past. Almost every cause of shame is a consequence of the freedom that we celebrate above all things. Take the evil with the good, but keep the freedom; that's our motto. The trick is to spread the bounty of freedom around to correct the evil. When there is an effort to do that, one has something to celebrate. And still, can you pin it down? Sitting cross-legged on the green, sucking on your McDonald's vanilla shake, listening...
Life without tutors is scary, no doubt. But keep this one motto in mind when you get out there--do what John Harvard wouldn't do and you'll do fine...
...learned to love machinery from her father Joseph, a printer and sometime inventor. A practical, progressive thinker, he dismissed his Jewish background; his wife Minnie Bourke was an equally forward-looking daughter of British immigrants. They taught Margaret the redemptive power of work and accomplishment and gave her the motto "You can." Joseph died during her freshman year in college, leaving her grief and a mixed legacy. She spent the rest of her life trying to match his vision of her possibilities--and the world's--in photographs...
...salute the current residents for upholding so vigorously a distinguished tradition of mayhem, as reported in The Crimson of April 8. Let the word go forth that the torch has been passed to a new generation of maniacs and funseekers, charging into battle, water pistols poised, the Mower motto emblazoned on their hearts: "Holworthy Sucks." Christopher H. Foreman...