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In mourning…. My regular readers know that I post my blog writing on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with my “Wednesday History Note” sprinkled in-between. In light of the recent pain from the multiple events in Orlando, I have chosen to have no post this week, maybe next. Hug your loved ones. Tell your friends you care…
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Many of my professor friends know this experience: A student came by my office the other day. Up to this point in the semester, we’ve had something like 16 days in class. This person had missed 6 days and come unprepared for another 6 or 7, so fully 3/4ths of the semester had been a…
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“There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.”