November 2021 Edition
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Amherst goes down, Sipress is back
Here is our Fall 2021 update...
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Ephs dominate on Pratt Field, cap perfect season

Ephs dominate on Pratt Field, cap perfect season

Final score: 24-19

ESCAC Offensive Player of the Year Bobby Maimaron (first featured in these pages in 2017 as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of our win over Amherst, returning in 2019 to provide another victory, with more comfortable 31-9 margin) again led the attack with some stellar support from receiver Frank Stola.

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Tales from the 60s, part 4, approximately?

Tales from the 60s, part 4, approximately?

Reprinted with permission of author

Fifty-two years ago, on the night of April 8, 1969, a group of antiwar students...

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Review article: The New Williams Architecture of the 1960s (Princeton series)

Review article: The New Williams Architecture of the 1960s (Princeton series)

Two distinguished Williams art professors, Eugene Johnson (emeritus) and Michael J. Lewis, have shared their appraisals of the quality of the campus architecture in Williams College: An Architectural Tour (Princeton Architectural Press 2018).

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The Return of the Quiz Kids

The Return of the Quiz Kids

This is good mental exercise, as it turns out, and adds to that vital cognitive reserve. Help you stave off that pesky aging stuff.

Here are the latest teasers from the team of Steinberg, Heiss, and Caskey:

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The Bards of Brooks House

The Bards of Brooks House

John Fulkerson and Ted McMahon, both former residents of Brooks House, joined forces to to send us each three of their favorite poems.

We've published Ted's work here before, but this is the first time we've heard from John.

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When I'm --wait for it-- 75

When I'm --wait for it-- 75

I am 75 now - and one of the great gifts is that I can read almost perfectly. I can finally read Virginia Woolf and go silent at her gift. I can read Hemingway and know precisely what is good and what is bunk.

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