http://www.tassava.com/blowing-and-drifting/2008/10/12/presidential-education/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:03:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.tassava.com/blowing-and-drifting/2008/10/12/presidential-education/comment-page-1/#comment-525 admin Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:28:10 +0000 http://www.tassava.com/blowing-and-drifting/?p=507#comment-525 I've forgotten, Rob, to respond to your comment on Garfield. (His bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield) I didn't know anything about Garfield except that he was assassinated by a disgruntled office-seeker, making Garfield the only president to be killed by the spoils system. I can't imagine that there are many murdered classics profs, much less murdered classics prof politicians. According to the Wikipedia entry, Garfield was trying to catch a train to Massachusetts to give a speech at Williams when Guiteau shot him. I’ve forgotten, Rob, to respond to your comment on Garfield. (His bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield) I didn’t know anything about Garfield except that he was assassinated by a disgruntled office-seeker, making Garfield the only president to be killed by the spoils system. I can’t imagine that there are many murdered classics profs, much less murdered classics prof politicians. According to the Wikipedia entry, Garfield was trying to catch a train to Massachusetts to give a speech at Williams when Guiteau shot him.

]]> http://www.tassava.com/blowing-and-drifting/2008/10/12/presidential-education/comment-page-1/#comment-524 admin Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:13:37 +0000 http://www.tassava.com/blowing-and-drifting/?p=507#comment-524 Well, yeah; all the *really* smart people go to Mac. Well, yeah; all the *really* smart people go to Mac.

]]> http://www.tassava.com/blowing-and-drifting/2008/10/12/presidential-education/comment-page-1/#comment-523 Donna Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:30:12 +0000 http://www.tassava.com/blowing-and-drifting/?p=507#comment-523 I was *this* close to attending Oxy instead of Mac! Seriously! When I was applying for colleges, Oxy was actually higher on my list than Mac, but after I got my acceptances, I chose Mac instead. I was *this* close to attending Oxy instead of Mac! Seriously! When I was applying for colleges, Oxy was actually higher on my list than Mac, but after I got my acceptances, I chose Mac instead.

]]> http://www.tassava.com/blowing-and-drifting/2008/10/12/presidential-education/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Rob Hardy Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:16:46 +0000 http://www.tassava.com/blowing-and-drifting/?p=507#comment-509 Best of all, President James Garfield was a classics professor at a small liberal arts college: Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio. Hiram College is also where my father-in-law, John Shaw, spent his career as an English professor. He was the editor of a volume of personal letters between Garfield and his wife Lucretia, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crete-James-Personal-Lucretia-Garfield/dp/0870133381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223907287&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">Crete and James</a>. Best of all, President James Garfield was a classics professor at a small liberal arts college: Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio. Hiram College is also where my father-in-law, John Shaw, spent his career as an English professor. He was the editor of a volume of personal letters between Garfield and his wife Lucretia, Crete and James.

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