July 20, 2005

• Real

  From today’s New York Times:

  “Elizabeth Blodgett Hall, an educator who concluded that bored high
  school students should be sent straight to college and started Simon’s
  Rock College to prove the point, died on Monday in Canaan, Conn. She
  was 95….

  Mrs. Hall’s mission was intensely personal.  In addition to spending
  more than $6 million of her own, she gave 200 acres of her family’s
  farmland, buildings included, to start the college…. She named it for a rock on which she had played
  as a child.”

  “Was there really a cherubim

  waiting at the star-watching rock…?
  Was he real?
  What is real?”

  – Madeleine L’Engle,
  A Wind in the Door,
  quoted at math16.com

  For further details, see

  To Prove a Point.

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