"What famous politician was known for his impeccable manners and even wrote a small book of etiquette? Hint: He was born a long, long time ago. And no, it ain't Schaefer."
— Columnist Laura Vozzella on Washington College's "Curious about George?" online trivia game ("WWGD: What Would George Do?," The (Baltimore) Sun, February 22, 2006)
"'He was both a fervent idealist and a genius at power orchestration,' Striner says. 'Those are the leadership qualities that do not come along every day.'"
— WC's Richard Striner, Professor of History and author of the new book Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery, quoted in "What if Lincoln had lived?" by Michael Hill, The (Baltimore) Sun, February 12, 2006
"'The State of our union is strong!' The Constitution does not technically require that these seven words be spoken by the president. But like a clogged artery, the sentence has hardened in rhetorical tradition. Bill Clinton used a variant in every State of the Union but 1995. George W. Bush has stuck to the same script, though he daringly revised it to 'confident and strong' in 2004 and 2005."
— From "The State of the Union is Unreal" by Ted Widmer, Director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, in The New York Times, January 31, 2006
"As an academic wag once put it, part of the job of a college president is to live in a big house and beg people for money. But even in this post-Benjamin Ladner era (the American University scallywag who took too much for himself), Washington College's new president, Baird Tipson, is demonstrating that he won't ask anyone to do anything he won't do himself."
— On Baird Tipson's commitment to give $10,000 a year of his salary to support the Vincent Hynson Scholarship Fund for minority students ("Tipson's Tithing," Chesapeake Life Magazine, December 2005/January 2006)
"'It's kind of like being told something you've been brought up to believe your whole life didn't happen. Like being told Neil Armstrong didn't really walk on the moon.'"
— WC Junior Erin Koster on her controversial historical research on the Chestertown Tea Party conducted with C.V. Starr Scholar Adam Goodheart ("Chestertown Tea Party called fiction," The Associated Press, December 18, 2005)
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