By Nick DeSantis. Shareholders of the parent company of the University of Phoenix on Friday approved a deal to sell the company to a group of private investors for $1.14 billion, The Arizona Republic reported. More...
15 mai 2016
15 mai 2016
U.S. Tells UNC It Violates Federal Law by Following Controversial Bathroom Bill
By Nick DeSantis. The U.S. Department of Justice has notified the president of the University of North Carolina system that it is violating federal civil-rights law by following a controversial new state law that has drawn widespread criticism as biased against transgender people. More...
15 mai 2016
For Her Last 18 Months at Harvard, Endowment Chief Got $13.8 Million
By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz. Harvard University’s former investment chief was paid $13.8 million for her last 18 months of work before leaving the job, in 2014, Bloomberg reported on Friday. More...
15 mai 2016
The Citadel Won’t Allow Student to Wear a Hijab With Her Uniform
By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz. The Citadel has denied an incoming Muslim student’s request to wear a hijab, or head scarf, with the college’s military uniform, its president, Lt. Gen. John Rosa, said in a written statement on Tuesday. More...
15 mai 2016
Capital Punishment
By William Germano. The New York Times reported recently that the National Weather Service has decided to stop yelling at us, at least typographically. FLOODING will now be flooding, and 9.2 ON THE RICHTER SCALE will be smaller, if only in appearance. More...
15 mai 2016
Vivat Academia!
By Allan Metcalf. Among the relics of medieval Latin still venerated by modern American colleges and universities are the mottos inscribed or circumscribed on the great seals that adorn their diplomas. Long before mission statements were sine qua non at institutions of higher learning, their seals evoked their aims.
Harvard, of course, leads the pack with a coat of arms reading ve ri tas: One word for “truth,” in a trinity of syllables. Lest there be any doubt about the nature of this trinity, the coat of arms was at one time encircled with the motto Cristo et ecclesiae, for Christ and the church.
Down in New Haven, Yale went Harvard one better by adding light to the truth, lux et veritas. It seems a simple addition, but the backstory is complicated because the Yale motto is a translation of an obscure Hebrew phrase, Urim vThummim. If you’re curious, a 2001 article in the Yale Alumni Magazine explains the development not only of Yale’s motto but also of Harvard’s. More...
15 mai 2016
The Good Old Teen Years
By Allan Metcalf. Alas, where are the years of yesteryear? Gone with the wind, or at least gone with their poetic pronunciations, now that we have moved from the 1900s to the 2000s. More...
15 mai 2016
The Strange Saga of ‘Gobbledygook’
By Ben Yagoda. The other day, the website Futility Closet posted a reproduction of a document from the National Archives. More...
15 mai 2016
The ‘Au Revoir’ Problem
By Ben Yagoda. Way back when I was taking “Introduction to French” during my freshman year in college, we were given a quiz a month or so into the term. At one point, the professor spoke some French words and we were asked to spell them. One of the words was the French phrase for “goodbye.”
This is what I wrote down: “orra voire.”
The professor had competently taught us that the term is “au revoir.” And I had learned it, up to a point. More...
15 mai 2016
Ars Poetica
By Amitava Kumar. I like listening to Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac with my daughter. She is in seventh grade. We catch the day’s broadcast on my phone while waiting in the morning at the bus stop. More...
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