“Students at elite colleges are even richer than experts realized, according to a new study based on millions of anonymous tax filings and tuition records. “At 38 colleges in America, including five in the Ivy League – Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Penn and Brown – more students came from the top 1 percent of the income […]
Posts Tagged ‘wake forest university’
Where the richest kids go to college in North Carolina
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged davidson college, duke university, elon university, income inequality, unc chapel hill, wake forest university on January 18, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
How to get your wedding in the New York Times
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged duke university, new york times, north carolina state university, university of north carolina, wake forest university, wedding announcements, wedding crunchers on September 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Just follow the clues in this name-frequency chart from Wedding Crunchers. Has the Times told Duke the honeymoon is over?
Nazi leader gets cold shoulder at Wake Forest
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged american fuehrer, american nazi party, frederick j. simonelli, george lincoln rockwell, wake forest university on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
[In 1967, American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln] Rockwell spoke at Wake Forest University, a North Carolina school with only 14 Jewish students…. The local Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith prepared by providing media and college officials with background information on Rockwell, emphasizing his need for publicity. “[According to an account in the ADL Bulletin], […]
Link dump arrives in egg, Miscellany fans go gaga
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged chapel hill nc, martin luther king, muskogee ok, nc central prison, paducah ky, raleigh nc, skyco nc, spearfish sd, wake forest university, winston-salem nc on February 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
— Break-in at Central Prison! — Muskogee, Paducah or Chapel Hill? — Reel-to-reel of MLK in Winston-Salem makes digital debut. — Sorry, just couldn’t resist writing “Dateline: Spearfish.” — Would historic Skyco be better remembered if it didn’t have to share its name with a mobile home builder, a paragliding outfitter and a supplier of […]
The making of ‘The Mind of the South’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged american mercury, blanche knopf, charlotte nc, duke power co, furnifold simmons, h.l. mencken, old south, sahara of the bozart, the mind of the south, w j cash, wake forest university on October 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“At Wake Forest [W. J. Cash] became… a fan of H. L. Mencken, the acerbic Baltimore journalist who’d derided the South as ‘the Sahara of the Bozart’…. He wanted to write for Mencken’s magazine, American Mercury. In 1929 [it] published his Menckenesque dismantling of U.S. Sen. Furnifold Simmons…. ‘the stateliest Neanderthaler who ever cooled his […]
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