July 12
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income — which he then spends sending his son to college. ~ Bill Vaughn
Now getting down into scholarship. We have reason to believe this was our 5th year of Mini-U. This is Part 2, meaning Part 1 has already been posted . . .
June 10
The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose. ~ Ernie Banks
[Really good stuff to hear in this “current era” . . . ]
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. ~ Joan Didion
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realization that you can’t make old friends. ~ Christopher Hitchens
I’ve never been a millionaire, but I just know I’d be darling at it. ~ Dorothy Parker
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. ~ Hubert Humphrey
I’ve just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again. ~ Tim Vine
[These guys have been two of our favorites over the years . . . ]
Statistics are like a bikini, what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~ Aaron Levenstein (business professor)
Egomania is not a duty. ~ Marianne Moore
Music is the space between notes. ~ Claude Debussy
Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience. ~ Dorothy Parker
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~ Voltaire
Everybody dies famous in a small town. ~ Miranda Lambert
[This, of course, is the crux of what is going on today in these United States. The professor noted that his ethnic background (southern European) makes him a possible target for ICE . . . ]
Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition. ~ David Dunning
It took me 15 years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. ~ Peter Benchley
Canada is the nice apartment over the meth lab. ~ Robin Williams
The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism. ~ Hannah Arendt
[There are some interesting immigrant labor statistics here. Get to know them. And use them . . . ]
Contrary to popular opinion, it is institutions, norms, and laws – not elections – that constitute a functioning democracy. ~ M. Gessen
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. ~ Jonathan Swift
Never speak ill of yourself. Your friends will say enough on that subject. ~ Talleyrand
Definition of a college professor: someone who talks in other people’s sleep. ~ W.H. Auden
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ~ G.B. Trudeau
80 percent of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn’t read. ~ Unknown
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. ~ Fred Allen
[This was outdoors for lunch at the Vault. Karen and Rita, Ruthie’s sister – coeds today, roommates in the 60’s . . . ]
I’m a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed. ~ Bruce Lee
[Rita and Ruthie . . . ]
Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’ ~ Paul McCartney
[Presents a cool and fun night time class in the biggest auditorium. Last year he gave us Bob Dylan . . . ]
If we’d know we were going to be the Beatles, we’d have tried harder. ~ George Harrison
For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God. ~ Rick Rubin
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time. ~ Dave Grohl
As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead. ~ George Harrison
[Professor Gess teared up more than once during his presentation . . . ]
There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway. ~ Paul McCartney
There’s no outdoing The Beatles. ~ Brian Wilson
From 1958 to 1964, that’s real rock n’ roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them. ~ Wolfman Jack
No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles. ~ Yoko Ono
From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles. ~ Pat Metheny
The Beatles saved the world from boredom. ~ George Harrison
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one. ~ John Lennon
[I had a brilliant, uncirculated White Album, still under the original wrap. I can’t find it?]
June 11
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
[I thoroughly enjoyed his classes in previous years. Despite having multiple religious degrees, this year he advised us that he was no longer a Christian . . . a situation that would be interesting to pursue further . . . ]
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur. ~ Will Rogers
I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I’ve taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea. ~ Michael Eisner
[Ann Schertz, our photographer every year and someone who Sid Hartman would recognize as a potentially close personal friend . . . ]
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ~ Mark Twain
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. ~ Carl Sagan
[It’s like herding cats to get a bunch of seniors to pose for a class photo. I believe there were 460 student in this year’s class . . . ]
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. ~ Dave Barry
[Her class photos are not available yet . . . ]
For one week I am exposed to a wide variety of topics and am mentally energized. What else could you ask for? ~ Elizabeth Tanis, Mini University attendee
When I was in high school and college, I thought everybody could think in pictures. And my first inkling to my thinking was even different was when I was in college and I read an article about, you know, some scientist said that the caveman could not have designed tools until they had language. ~ Temple Grandin
[A last minute class change here – I wasn’t sure what I was getting into. But the idea was interesting. Create another you from all your social medias post and through AI have conversations with yourself then continue on once your Earthly body is gone. Yup, enjoyed this class . . . ]
Christ, seven years of college, down the drain. ~ John Belushi
The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was. ~ Clarence Thomas
[Of course, he also noted several hundred people are in a deep freeze in hopes of being revived one day . . . ]
My whole goal in all of high school was to never go to college. ~ MrBeast
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration. ~ Freddie Mercury
We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students. ~ Debbie Stabenow
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college… I did other things. ~ Jackie Kennedy
[This was Ruthie’s class and photos . . . ]
It’s funny because it’s funny. ~ David Spade
[Ruthie’s classmates . . . ]
There’s a lot of pretty funny women out there. ~ Chelsea Handler
[Same class . . . ]
Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said. ~ Al Franken
[Interesting subject – seems we’re still a long way from resolution . . . ]
Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young people as an investment – in them and in the future of our own country. ~ Pramila Jayapal
I think everyone’s intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it. ~ Tina Fey
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario – where the candidate with the most votes loses – has happened three times in U.S. history. ~ Juan Williams
The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That’s how you win elections. ~ Steve Bannon
[C3 restaurant in Bloomington with IU administration and alums who have learned to tolerate us over the years . . . ]
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook. ~ Ralph Abernathy
[Our friends from Bloomington, Mary and Rick (in the middle, right side), are so smart they bought a house near Ely for their (for now) summer getaway place . . . ]
June 12
I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over. ~ Alice Walker
[He was too good – succeeded in scaring the hell out of us . . . ]
So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can’t imagine how they had high hopes for me. ~ Dustin Hoffman
When I went to college, I majored in anti-war demonstrations, you know? I mean, really! ~ Tom Noddy
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls. ~ Horatio Alger
As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job. ~ Jane Goodall
College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity. ~ Tom Ford
And sex is definitely part of college life. ~ Scott Speedman
[Although that somehow managed to escape my attention at the time . . . ]
A college education shows a man how little other people know. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
College is part of the American dream. It shouldn’t be part of a financial nightmare for families. ~ Barbara Mikulski
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it. ~ Bo Jackson
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years. ~ Ronald Reagan
I had tried to go to college, and I didn’t really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus – I just looked different and acted different, so I left school. ~ Bruce Springsteen
[Another favorite class from year-to-year . . . ]
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can’t remember us working it out. ~ Art Garfunkel
There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week. ~ Mark Knopfler
I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. ‘Where did you get it?’ ‘I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can’t even watch their sign?’ ~ Carrot Top
[Faculty reception in Alumni Hall . . . ]
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. ~ Woodrow Wilson
[The view from Alumni Hall into the Solarium . . . ]
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. ~ Robert M. Hutchins
[Annually, this is the show everyone comes to see and hear. Professor Lenkowsky bats for the conservative side (absent to current occupant) and Professor Hershey bat for the liberals. Both are excellent . . . ]
In a democracy, voters choose their political leaders. In a democracy that permits gerrymandering … elected leaders choose their voters. ~ Margie Hershey
[This is Margie Hershey, author of “Party Politics in America,” the gold standard of such tomes in its 16th printing. She was not impressed by “The Trump Administration at 6 Months.” She is 50 days older than Ruthie . . . ]
Al Gore has been one of my closest friends since the day we met, on the first day of college, 35 years ago. ~ Tommy Lee Jones
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job. ~ Congressman Mark Pocan (Ed’s note: “Good-paying” rather than “well-paying,” good for him)
I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. ~ Ray Bradbury
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. ~ Alice Walker
Just because I don’t have a college degree doesn’t mean I am not smart! ~ Emma Stone
I can’t say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It’s why I advocate that everyone go to college. ~ Mark Cuban
The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case. ~ Gene Green
The Electoral College needs to go, because it’s made our society less and less democratic. ~ Pete Buttegieg
It is virtually impossible to compete in today’s global economy without a college degree. ~ Bobby Scott
June 13
Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans. ~ Robert Reich
[Last class, leading to yet another graduation(?) . . . ]
I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long. ~ Bruce Conner (Ed’s note: I don’t know who he is but a have a first cousin named “Bruce Conner”)
[He appeared to us by streaming (or whatever) – he was live from Europe. He knew his stuff . . . ]
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. ~ Herman Melville
College is a refuge from hasty judgment. ~ Robert Frost
[We always have to stop to put the “I” in “IU” . . . ]
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself. ~ Stephen Hawking
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad. ~ Donald Trump
[Do you see Trump’s profile on the right side of the cloud? This was on the way home, somewhere in Wisconsin. The worst driving trip ever. We left Bloomington, Indiana, in the morning hoping to be in Tomah, Wisconsin, in 7 hours. 11 1/2 hours later we checked into our Tomah hotel. Every road, highway within a hundred-mile radius of Chicago was all dug up. We even ventured into the city’s grid (interesting), but every street had a detour. We finally decided we would just follow our compass and keep heading west and north to the best of our abilities. And decided it would always be a good idea to keep a hospital urinal in the car . . . ]
People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me. ~ Donald Trump
[I’m not walking under any ladders for a while . . . ]
I owe it all to little chocolate donuts. ~ John Belushi
We’ll meet again, don’t no where, don’t know when . . . . Ross Parker / Hugh Charles / Angela Anuforo
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