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Simon Newcomb

"A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter."

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Donna Grant

"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."

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Donna Grant

"One half who graduate from college never read another book."

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Donna Grant

"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."

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Donna Grant

"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."

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Donna Grant

"I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana."

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Donna Grant

"Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college."

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Donna Grant

"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."

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Donna Grant

"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."

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Donna Grant

"I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester."

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Donna Grant

"The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations."

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Simon Newcomb
"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed."

Guidance

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Simon Newcomb
"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."

Light

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Simon Newcomb
"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war."

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Simon Newcomb
"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."

Men

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Simon Newcomb
"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."

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Simon Newcomb
"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope."

Men

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Simon Newcomb
"The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington."

Family

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Simon Newcomb
"As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest."

Existence

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Simon Newcomb
"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."

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Simon Newcomb
"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck."

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