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Daily Archives: May 10, 2026
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Quote, Unquote
By reimagining college-admissions criteria, James Conant hoped to spark a social and cultural revolution. The age of the Well-Bred Man was vanishing. The age of the Cognitive Elite was here.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Campus Life at
La Trobe University
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Midday Music Fix
Alice In Chains – Angry Chair
(From MTV Unplugged)
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Campus Life at the
Queensland University of Technology
Campus Trivia
Question: Which were the 10 largest American companies in 1965?
The Fortune 500 list of the 10 largest American companies in 1965 is as follows:
- General Motors
- Exxon
- Ford
- General Electric
- Mobile
- Chrysler
- U.S. Steel
- Texaco
- International Business Machines
- Gulf Oil
Between 1955 and 1965, three companies dropped out of the Fortune 500 Top 10: Esmark; Armour and Dupont.
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