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The smallest things are most important

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Thoughts for the back-to-school season:

The real intellectual life of a body of undergraduates, if there be any, manifests itself, not in the classroom, but in what they do and talk of and set before themselves as their favorite objects between classes and lectures. You will see the true life of a college…where youths get together and let themselves go upon their favorite themes–in the effect their studies have upon them when no compulsion of any kind is on them, and they are not thinking to be called to a reckoning of what they know.

— Woodrow Wilson

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September 1st, 2009 at 1:25 pm

Penny protest

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New Jersey’s Readington Middle School pardoned 29 students who were suspended for using legal tender in a protest against their too-short (30-minute) lunch break. Paying their $2 lunches entirely with pennies (5,800 of them total), the students brought the cafeteria line to a standstill and earned themselves a two-day suspension. Some of the non-suspended students expressed support for the “Readington 29” by abstaining from hot lunch later that week and having a packed lunch instead.

I think they deserve an “A” for creativity, at least.

In 2004, this guy tried to get rid of one million pennies.

In 2001, another guy tried to get rid of all the pennies.

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March 5th, 2008 at 11:44 am