http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/2007/09/18/a-touch-of-class-on-your-way-to-class/ The opinion blog of The Daily Pennsylvanian Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/2007/09/18/a-touch-of-class-on-your-way-to-class/#comment-139 Stefanie Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:20:31 +0000 http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/?p=102#comment-139 i just might to try something like that. maybe i'll write out some organic mechanisms somwewhere. or a p-chem proof. though that would take up probably take up all of locust walk and then some, so i'll stick to my benzene rings :) i just might to try something like that. maybe i’ll write out some organic mechanisms somwewhere. or a p-chem proof. though that would take up probably take up all of locust walk and then some, so i’ll stick to my benzene rings

]]> http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/2007/09/18/a-touch-of-class-on-your-way-to-class/#comment-138 Ben Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:46:21 +0000 http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/?p=102#comment-138 From my Penn Reading Project book freshman year, (yes, I am one of the few who read it) I think I recall that Ben Franklin, in establishing the school, recognized the impossibility of teaching students anywhere near the information available to them. Instead, he exhorted Penn to teach only that which is "most useful" and "most ornamental." While it may be (in the creator's own wording) useless, I think the poetry on the walk struck solidly into the realm of most ornamental. Franklin might not be the ultimate reference even at Penn, but I, for one, was delighted. From my Penn Reading Project book freshman year, (yes, I am one of the few who read it) I think I recall that Ben Franklin, in establishing the school, recognized the impossibility of teaching students anywhere near the information available to them. Instead, he exhorted Penn to teach only that which is “most useful” and “most ornamental.” While it may be (in the creator’s own wording) useless, I think the poetry on the walk struck solidly into the realm of most ornamental. Franklin might not be the ultimate reference even at Penn, but I, for one, was delighted.

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