Category: The Halcyon Days
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A Random Thought About The Coming Spring
I rarely eat lunch alone, but when I do I write in my journal. An excerpt: 2/17/2011 12:15 p.m. I really love these grey wet spring days. Especially before all the leaves and flowers come out: vernal sweetness with the bleak stark verity of winter–the world’s denuded skeletons stand still proudly, their limbs and digits…
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Regarding Support for UChicago Student Entrepreneurs
The University of Chicago likes to give undergraduate- and graduate students the illusion that they have a say in how the organization is run, so they grant us audience with members of the board of trustees every once in a while. Next week, I will attend a luncheon with Paul Yovovich, president, co-founder and principal…
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The Halcyon Days Goes on Sick Leave
Jason D. Rowley, principle contributor to The Halcyon Days, has come down with some variant of either rhinovirus or influenza. He hopes that his wild febrile phantasms provide inspiration for future content. In the meantime, do enjoy some old photos of hospitals from the Life Magazine photo archive. JDR should be back to his usual…
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Post #101: Notes on Going Forward
And this is the part where I tell you that my interests do not lie solely in complaining about college, writing bad poetry, or trying my hand at fiction. Since I was sixteen, I’ve been intensely interested in finance. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when this interest developed, what sparked it, but ever since—especially…
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Schumpeter’s Nightmare
Check out my most recent Flyover Geeks article here. You’ll find an excerpt below: Well, it seems as though I’ve got another sacred cow to kill. Universities, over the past thirty or so years, have made an effort to support a vibrant campus community, with varsity sports and extracurricular activities at its center. Any recent…
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On University of Chicago’s Biggest Lesson
I’ve long joked with my friends that the most valuable skill one can take away from a University of Chicago education is the ability to genuinely forget everything one learned during the course of that education.
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Still More Quotes On Which Recently I’ve Leaned
To read other quotes on which recently I’ve leaned, check out A Couple of Quotes On Which Recently I’ve Leaned. – – – It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one. –Chuck Palahniuk, Salon.com Letters, Aug. 26, 2003