Speaking at his alma mater, he urged graduates to be voracious readers, donate to worthy causes & stay in Maine
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Stephen King exhorts UMaine grads to stay - The Boston Globe  May 8, 2005 ... ORONO, Maine -- Delivering the commencement speech at his alma mater, the ... of Maine graduates yesterday to be voracious readers, to donate a tenth of their earnings to worthy causes, and to carve out their careers in Maine. ... the university president, King joked that if he faltered on the first speech, he...
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Your Maine Forum :: View topic - King urges grads: 'Stay in Maine'  Delivering the commencement speech at his alma mater, writer Stephen King told University of Maine graduates Saturday to be voracious readers, donate a 10th of their earnings to worthy causes and carve out careers his native state. In his "top 10" list , he urged students to hug and kiss whomever helped...
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Stephen King Exhorts UMaine Grads To Stay - Free Republic  May 8, 2005 ... No indoor facility could accommodate all the graduates, friends and ... King said he remembered speaking to the same class in the fall of ... he rattled off a ''top 10" list, urging students to hug and kiss whoever ... The last four points of his list were the same: Stay in Maine. ..... I'm a Mainer too for that matter.
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Stephen King addresses grads at his alma mater - Fosters  May 8, 2005 ... King, a member of the class of 1970, wound up speaking twice after rain ... ORONO, Maine (AP)  Delivering the commencement speech at his alma mater, ... to be voracious readers, donate a tenth of their earnings to worthy causes ... he rattled off a top 10 list, urging students to hug and kiss whoever...
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USATODAY.com - Stephen King addresses grads at alma mater  May 8, 2005 ... Delivering the commencement speech at the University of Maine, ... voracious readers, donate a tenth of their earnings to worthy causes and carve out their careers in Maine. ... King rattled off a "top 10" list in which he urged students to hug and ... The last four points of his list were the same: Stay in Maine.
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NORTHEAST JOURNAL - NYTimes.com  Aug 21, 1988 ... The center, in Hallowell, Me., has sponsored a student exchange program ... CALVIN COOLIDGE, the 30th President, is probably better ... He was so taciturn that Dorothy Parker, informed of his death in ... How can they tell?''.
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Foster Quotes Eminem at Penn Graduation - Washington Post  The Oscar-winning actress spoke Monday at the University of Pennsylvania's commencement ceremonies, ending her address with ... Monday, May 15, 2006; 7:13 PM ... this year, but she received a standing ovation after her speech. ... Comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who earned a master's degree in positive psychology, was...
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Theodore Roosevelt: Progressive Crusader - Heritage Foundation  Sep 24, 2012 ... President Teddy Roosevelt ... mean and sordid and brought these sensibilities with him into public life.[1] A firm believer in what he called the manly virtues, he urged his ..... [12] He used his bully pulpit to call for graduated income and ... Secretary of War William Howard Taft installed in the White House,...
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Napoleon | Dan Miller's Blog  Feb 19, 2010 ... At age 19, Henry David Thoreau delivered a Harvard commencement address. ... he proposed that man should work one day a week and leave six free for the sublime revelations of nature. ... but I doubt you would suggest that we risk our marriages, health, homes, etc. while seeking to reach our goals.
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Alma mater - Wikipedia  Alma mater is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university or college. It is used to refer to a school which an individual has attended. In English, the phrase is variously translated as "nourishing mother", "nursing mother", or "fostering mother", suggesting that a school provides ... It is related to the term alumnus, denoting a university graduate, and literally...
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Indiana UMC: Former First Lady Returns to Alma Mater to Address ...  Former first lady Laura Bush will return to her alma mater May 16 to deliver the address at Southern Methodist University's 94th commencement ceremony. ... Bush earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education from SMU in 1968.
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Program PDF - National Collegiate Honors Council  Nov 11, 2015 ... for designing the 50th Anniversary conference logo. Make No Little ..... Developing in Honors Opening (sponsored by Phi Kappa Phi). 8:30 AM ...... DIH 3.6: Staffing Honors: Models for a successful team .... Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. ...... Josie Champagne, University of Maine.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Wikipedia  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807  March 24, 1882) was an American poet ... Birthplace of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland, Maine, c. ... There Longfellow met Nathaniel Hawthorne, who would later become his lifelong friend. ... he was offered a job as professor of modern languages at his alma mater.
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A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel - South Kitsap School District  I doubt it's because she was a Wheelwright that my mother never gave up ...... But Harvard ' was important enough to my grandmother to calm her troubled ..... their graves . . . this dog with the mouth of death was then summoned to lick your face. ...... and magazines, and to bring them into class for our hearty ridicule-and that...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Wikipedia  Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803  April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo ... Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised ... He took outside jobs to cover his school expenses, including as a waiter for .... then entitled "An Oration, Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at...
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Frank Roosevelt at Harvard | Harvard Magazine  Nov 1, 1996 ... On the 250th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College, many .... "to suppose that the men of this University live in rooms the walls of which are ... More than 200 students rowed as affiliates of the Newell and Weld boat clubs, which ... He served as librarian of the Fly, the Hasty Pudding Club, and the...
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Today's GLBT History Month Icon: Scientist George Washington ...  Oct 2, 2010 ... Throughout his life, he maintained a positive approach. ... As part of his legacy, Carver left behind the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee, which he funded with his life savings in 1940 so that the research center could continue his ... the Carver Science Building at Simpson College bearing his name.
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Post to the Host from Prairie Home Companion and American Public ...  Would you be able to tell me where I might find a copy of a poem you wrote a ... too young and they probably don't know A.E. Housman's "Loveliest of trees the ... My youngest daughter and I have been faithful APHC fans for years. ... paying money to have that chipped away so he named the college Waldorf. ... Olympia, WA.
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Plato, Letters, Letter 2  For I maintain that, as regards [311e] the true philosophy, men will think and speak well of it if .... all means do so; [314e] but if not, lend him if possible to Speusippus and send him home. ... 4 Polyxenus was a Sophist and a disciple of Bryson of Megara, cf. ... 22 Plato's nephew, who succeeded him as head of the Academy.
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Full text of "The glamour of Oxford; descriptive passages in verse ...  Principles and Methods of University Reform . .217 Davtes, J. To my much honoured ..... Instead of being scattered in a town, the students of Oxford and Cambridge are ... Much have ye suffered from Time's gnawing tooth Yet, O ye spires of Oxford ... Gardens and groves ! your presence overpowers The soberness of reason...
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Remembering Tulsa Evangelist Oral Roberts - NewsOn6.com ...  Dec 15, 2009 ... The founder of Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral ... At the core of his legacy is a great university that bears his name. .... Roberts was miraculously healed of tuberculosis and stuttering at the revival meeting. His...