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Q & A
William Phelps, marking exam papers shortly before Christmas one year, came acro...
Spleen
Joseph Hyrtl once examined a particularly nervous candidate for a medical degree...
Gynecology Final
During one of his final exams, Richard Gordon (famed for his series of "Doctor" ...
Storehouse of Knowledge
At a dinner held in his honor one evening, Harvard president Charles W. Eliot wa...
Gallup Poll
As an editor of the student paper at the University of Iowa in the early 1920s, ...
Hard Disk
One day in May 1999 Ronald Thiemann, the dean of Harvard's Divinity School, call...
Crick & Churchill
When his Cambridge college began the construction of a chapel in 1961, the biolo...
Red in the Face?
One day shortly after his retirement from the University of Chicago, Robert Hutc...
Franck Admission
Physicist James Franck was among the professors who examined the twenty-three-ye...
Film Skool?
In the early 1970's, Tom Schulman, then an aspiring screenwriter, enrolled in fi...
Favorite Course
Shortly after Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen's son went off to university on...
Michael Moore: Young Idealist
After a year at the University of Michigan, Michael Moore signed up to work on t...
Robert Frost: Beloved Profe...
Between 1916 and 1920, Robert Frost taught English literature at Amherst College...
Pearly Gates
Stephen Girard's will endowing Girard College in Philadelphia stipulated that un...
Michael Dell Commencement A...
In 2003, Dell founder Michael Dell delivered the commencement address at the Uni...
Classic One Liner?
Dorothy Parker once attended, and later wrote a piece about, a Yale prom attende...
C-Student
In 2001, President George W. Bush accepted an honorary doctorate from his alma m...
Hot Ticket?
One day Christopher Atkinson began a lecture by explaining that he would be exam...
Learned Professor
Max Planck was made a full professor at the University of Berlin at an unusually...
Thomson's Lasses
The famed physicist William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) was a professor of natur...
Charles Barkley: Go Auburn!
Philadelphia 76ers star Charles Barkley was once asked why he had chosen to play...
Shane's World Scholarship Fund
In 2003, Arizona State University Students' Council vice president Brian Buck wa...
Michael Moore Scholarship Fund
Among the stops on renegade filmmaker Michael Moore's 60-city "Slacker Uprising ...
Bad Chemistry?
When, in 1933, Alfred North Whitehead expressed surprise that James Bryant Conan...
Used Car Salesman
When he was nineteen years old, the future business tycoon Jim Pattison got a jo...
Doodles
"Shoe" creator Jeff MacNelly spent four years at the University of North Carolin...
Minor Omission
One morning while teaching English composition at Yale University, John Berdan r...
Costume Ball?
Louis Untermeyer once attended a New Year's Eve costume party. As he unleashed s...
Passion Play
On the mandatory divinity section of an oral examination at Oxford University, O...
Very Well
The appearance of T. S. Eliot's obscure Four Quartets was welcomed with s...
Harvard U?
The eminent Greek scholar Paul Shorey once met Robert Hutchins on the University...
9:00 a.m. London Time?
Boxing champion George Foreman often regretted not having completed his educatio...
Vegetables
In 1965, when the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) opened its doors...
Fundamental Indifference?
One wintry night Harry Fosdick was awakened by a young student at his door. Fosd...
General Anesthesia
Ross Shafer once recalled undergoing surgery and being given a general anestheti...
George Dantzig: Homework
In 1939, 24-year-old George Dantzig began his graduate studies at the University...
Moronic Comment
In 2001, President George W. Bush, a former C student, returned to Yale (his ...
Bill Cosby, PhD
In May 1977, Bill Cosby was awarded a doctorate in education by the University o...
Case In Point?
Dan Quayle, famed for his verbal bloopers, once foolishly ventured into the educ...
Augean Stables
Morris Cohen was once approached by a student at the end of his introductory phi...
Curve Ball
One day Harvard president Charles W. Eliot announced his plans to reduce support...
Smart Girl
"One of Mary Livermore's favorite stories was about the time she and five other ...
Cream of Ulster
One day during his brief tenure at Campbell College in Belfast, Samuel Beckett w...
Henry Kissinger: Being Boring
Henry Kissinger once recalled that, as a professor, he would go to parties, stan...
Pillar of Truth?
At the end of one of Robert Bunsen's courses, an unfamiliar student presented hi...
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Maya Lin's winning design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. ...
Planck
At the age of seventeen, Max Planck sought out the head of his university physic...
Einstein at Princeton
"At Princeton, Albert Einstein was more like a kindly uncle. When he arrived in ...
Laurens van der Post U
South African author Sir Laurens van der Post led commando units during World Wa...
Oscar Wilde: Rudiments of F...
As a young student at Oxford, Oscar Wilde once arrived late for an examination i...
Bono: Doctor of Law
In 2004, U2 frontman Bono received an honorary doctor of law degree from the Uni...
Save America
A gentleman visiting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas one day was surp...
Sousman Hosed?
In an after-dinner speech at Trinity College, Cambridge, A. E. Housman once muse...
Feminist Education?
Joan Rivers once appeared as a guest on Mike Bullard's talk show "Open Mike". Ha...
Windbag
Cornell University president Andrew White, famed for his emphasis on academics, ...
Harold Acton: Megaphony?
"Harold Acton was, to his eternal disgust, the prototype for Anthony Blanche, Wa...
Benjamin Jowett: Finding God
Oxford professor Benjamin Jowett was once approached by an arrogant young studen...
Smoot Marks
The Harvard Bridge, linking Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, is notable for ...
Dr. Demento?
In March 2003, sleep expert William Dement gave his last lecture at Stanford Uni...
Dwight Eisenhower: Commence...
General Dwight Eisenhower was once called upon to address a graduating class at ...
The Ivory Tower
While working as a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Marylan...
Joshing Around
In 1833, a young man named Henry Wheeler Shaw was thrown out of Hamilton College...
Boring Lecturer Contest
In 1971, professor David Coward won the 'Most Boring Lecturer of the Year' conte...
William Howard Taft: Presid...
During William Howard Taft's presidency, Harvard President Abbott Lowell was sum...
Performance Artist?
A reform-school graduate, ex-Marine, and drifter, Steve McQueen was once expelle...
Poems and Prose
Prospective Oxford fellows were routinely asked to dine at the high table with t...
Ethan Hawke: Carnegie-Mello...
After graduating from high school, Ethan Hawke decided to study at Carnegie-Mell...
Millikan, PhD
While passing through a hall in their home one day, the wife of the Nobel Prize-...
Steven Spielberg's Graduation
In a bid to encourage his seven children to attend college, director Steven Spie...
War Effort
On May 11, 1944, Evelyn Waugh, seeking to assist with the war effort, spoke with...
Pragmatist Philosopher
At Radcliffe, Gertrude Stein numbered among William James' favorite pupils. Conf...
¿Quennedy?
Ted Kennedy's later life was rife with political scandal. First, a young campaig...
Half Assed
Famed comedian Joey Adams was once awarded an honorary law degree by a Chinese u...
The Best, Barr None?
The four-year Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland w...
Man U?
In a match against a Spanish team before the 2002 World Cup, Manchester United m...
Slight Problem?
The famed mathematician (and father of computing) John von Neumann was in the ha...
Mathematical Mind
When Paul Dirac made a rare error in an equation on the blackboard during a lect...
Money Back Guarantee?
As president of Princeton University, Wilson was once questioned at great length...
Fish Out of Water?
"[Dr. Seuss] attended Dartmouth, then went to Oxford, but he dropped out after l...
Ivory Tower
Like many intellectuals, the Nobel-prize winning economist George Stigler purpos...
Young Stephen Hawking
One day, Stephen Hawking and his Oxford classmates were given a set of difficult...
Premises
At Glasgow University one day, Lord Kelvin found himself delivering a lecture in...
George Harris & Amherst Stu...
Every year, George Harris welcomed Amherst students at the beginning of the new ...
Screw U
Though Brooke Shields' first choice of colleges was Harvard, she ended up going ...
University Education
The famed abolitionist Josiah Henson, a former slave, was once introduced to the...
Poison Ivy League
"In the spring semester of my senior year of high school, my father got a call f...
Hilbert & Noether
Because she was a woman, the gifted mathematician Emmy Noether found her career ...
Liberal Arts?
"South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker once appeared on "The Tonight S...
Dwight Eisenhower: Columbia...
"Dwight Eisenhower led the Allied forces to victory in 1945 and then became pres...
John Steinbeck: Anatomy of ...
Young John Steinbeck once approached the dean of the medical school and asked fo...
Dick Cheney: Drop Out
George W. Bush was not the only imbecile in his administration. "I dropped out [...
Stephen Trachtenberg: Right...
In June 2004, George Washington University president Stephen Trachtenberg delive...
Chris Burden: Art and Artifice
In 2005, Chris Burden and his wife, Nancy Rubins, retired as art professors to p...
David Everett: AdsOnFeet
After leaving Emerson College, David Everett founded AdsOnFeet, a Boston-based p...
Robert Novak: Loaded Comment
"Bright, spoiled, egocentric, [Robert] Novak arrived at the University of Illino...
Charles Eliot: Great Thinker
Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard University, was once amused to recei...
Campus Life
According to the UC Berkeley website, former UC president Clark Kerr's "experien...
Bad Student
Texas A&M basketball coach Shelby Metcalf was once dismayed to learn that a star...
Like a Thesis
In 1990, a Florida State University graduate student named Chip Wells made headl...
All For the Nookie?
In 1977, writer Andre Dubus III went to college in Austin. How did Dubus end up ...
USC Film School
Michael Bay, the producer/director behind such blockbuster Hoolywood productions...
Jerry-Pot
"As vicar of St Mary Magdalene, Oxford," Colin Stephenson once recalled, "I foun...
Conrad's Benches
"In the fall of 1996, [the physicist and Columbia University professor Janet Con...
Jeff Cravath & College Foot...
USC coach Jeff Cravath was once asked why he had retired from college football t...
V. S. Naipaul: Naipaul at O...
Shortly after his arrival at Oxford University in 1950, eighteen-year-old V. S. ...
Open Windows
Bill Gates's computer-geek image was established well before his days at Microso...
Suitably Efficient?
English physicist and Cambridge University professor Paul Dirac was an avid moun...
Clear Thinker?
Daniel Zalewsky once interviewed novelist Gary Shteyngart over dinner at the Rus...
Litmus Testus
President Millard Fillmore was once offered an honorary degree (written in Latin...
Q.E.D.
The mathematician Josiah Gibbs once attended a Yale faculty meeting in the cours...
Wandering Mind
Like many brilliant mathematicians James Sylvester was possessed of a wildly wan...
Stephen Hawking: Final Exam
For his final exam in physics one year, Stephen Hawking - who once estimated tha...
Odd Mathematician
Among the luminaries in attendance when Klein and Nishina reported their derivat...
Tripos
As an undergraduate at Cambridge, William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) thought he...
Cognitive Psych
"A few weeks ago," Monica Lewinsky told celebrity researcher Baird Jones in Apri...
Young Fabio
After completing his service in the Italian army, Fabio was persuaded by a girlf...
Gerhard Schroder Reform Plan
In 2003, German chancellor Gerhard Schröder announced a series of education refo...
Kobe Bryant at UCLA
Shortly after being drafted, Kobe Bryant had regrets about entering the NBA stra...
Young Randy Newman
Ironically, Academy Award-winning composer Randy Newman failed to graduate from ...
Del Toro
Benicio Del Toro, whose parents were both lawyers, entered the University of Cal...
Peter Hays: UC Davis
"When I first came to Davis to teach in the summer of 1966, there were, I believ...
Weaver's Twist
When Raymond Weaver gave his first English literature class their first ever qui...
College of Magicians?
In 1813, Edward Jenner, famed for the landmark experiments with vaccination whic...
Lucy Liu: College Memories
"I'm a total lightweight," Lucy Liu once confessed, "especially when it comes to...
Tom Monaghan: Domino's U
"This week in Florida, the founder of Domino's Pizza [Tom Monaghan] started a ne...
Neil Simon: Adventure in th...
Before embarking on a career as a comedy writer, Neil Simon spent a brief period...
Good Samaritan
The poet Stanley Kunitz was employed by Bennington College after his friend and ...
Post-War Generation
"When Gerald Gardiner [later Baron Gardiner of Kittisford] was up at Magdalene C...
Young Ricci
Christina Ricci never had much interest in attending college but figured her par...
Young Jane Goodall
When she was 26 years old, Jane Goodall went to Africa, where she met the legend...
Alice Cooper. Ph.D
In 2004 Alice Cooper received an honorary degree from Grand Canyon University in...
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