TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, July 16, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Right now I am taking a class on reference sources in Business & Economics. It's a bit heavy for the summer, but I am certainly learning a lot. I have to read the Wall Street Journal a few times a week, and follow a stock everyday. I picked the Starbucks stock, which so far has done nothing but deflate a little more each day. It is definitely interesting learning about the business world, and certainly a little overwhelming, too!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

HINT: (1917-1986), American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and later the Chicago Sun-Times.


RANDOM TIDBITS
Seven of the eight Ivy League schools were founded before the American Revolution (Cornell being the exception), but the use of the term "Ivy League" to group the colleges only dates back to 1933. The seven schools are Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania.

According to the most recent statistics, a student has a better chance of getting into Cornell than any other Ivy League school. One in five applicants is accepted there, versus one in ten for Columbia, Harvard and Princeton.

Most Ivy League schools require that undergraduates either exhibit an ability to swim or take a beginner's course in swimming.

Most historians believe that the Ivy League got its name from the spreading plants that cover many of the oldest college buildings in the American northeast. Harvard is the oldest Ivy League member and the oldest college in the United States, founded in 1636.

No Ivy League school offers athletic scholarships, which is the key reason why those universities' sports teams typically cannot compete with those from colleges that do.

The "Seven Sisters" was a septet of women's colleges considered the female equivalent to the Ivy League. Vassar became a co-ed school, and Radcliffe merged with Harvard in 1999, so the five remaining Sisters are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Wellesley.


VIDEO CLIP
Grafton St. and Trinity College - Ireland
Dublin, Ireland has produced some of the world's greatest writers and intellectuals, many of which studied at Trinity College. The college was founded in 1592 and is one of the oldest universities in Western Europe.

Watch It Now: Grafton St. and Trinity College - Ireland


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

ANSWER: Sydney J. Harris.

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