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[cimorene]

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you can see in the seal our latin motto, 'terras irradient.'

terras irradient = illumine the earth [w/ knowledge]. from the library special collections online archive page:

I must tell you a little story that has given me a chuckle. Two of my associates on the Mutual Life Insurance Company Board are Yale chaps of the class of 1912. The three of us dined together a week ago at the “21 Club” in New York City. As we were standing at the bar waiting for a call to dinner, what should I discover on one of the pillars alongside the bar but one of our Amherst Shields. I promptly told the Yale chaps that I would now find our how much of an education they had received at New Haven, and asked them to translate our Latin motto, Terras Irradient. After a lengthy pause, one of them spoke up --"Shiny dirt!"

* looks like pomona college ripped us off, ne!

Comments

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

cimmehpie, you are footnote queen recently!!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

::blushes, tries to curtsey and stumbles and falls in a charming tangle of gauzy princess skirts, with most of a leg happening to show::

::sets tiara back on straight::

oh kk, you're so sweet! i can only try!

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[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm cimmehleg...

*smirkles*

*kisskiss*

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[cimness.livejournal.com]

0:-)

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[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

you know it's true.

*snerk*

[brandybuck.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! Who got turned down by Pomona? *giggles and dances like the early-morning idiot that she is* ;)

Re: *snerk*

[cimness.livejournal.com]

giggling and dancing are cool with me. pomona isn't so great anyway. ;) (my best friend--well, my best NOT ONLINE friend--goes there.)

[jennaria.livejournal.com]

:laugh: See how useful a classical education is? I can even tell you it's third person plural! (And it's less clumsy than Wellesley's, so points to Amherst.)

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[cimness.livejournal.com]

yeah, but take them away again for being snobby and full of stupid boys.