A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
gaudeamus (gau-di-AHM-uhs) noun A
convivial gathering or merry-making of students at a college or university. From the students’ song “De Brevitate Vitae”
(On the Shortness of Life) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLUKfU2AOBY
whose first word is gaudeamus (let’s rejoice). Earliest documented use: 1823.
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From: Tessa
Rosier van Rooyen Subject: gaudeamus When I read today’s word--gaudeamus--I
immediately broke out in song. We were
taught that drinking song that starts “Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus” at
my Camps Bay, Cape Town school in the 60s. Ah sweet memories!
From: John
Harrier Subject: gaudeamus
So now when I hear a young person say “YOLO baby” I’ll think “Gaudeamus,
(yawn), how 1823".
From: David
Micklethwait Subject: gaudeamus
In Oxford, a gaudy is a college feast, supposedly from “gaudeamus”, not
from the adjective “gaudy”, meaning showy or ostentatious. Hence the title of one of Dorothy L. Sayers’
detective stories, Gaudy
Night.
DELAWARE, Ohio — A harness-racing sulky hangs from the
ceiling in a historical wing of the Delaware Main Library. Paintings, books and
artifacts, all donated to the library by residents, line the walls of an
adjacent room. As public libraries
continue to evolve, from mere repositories of books into neighborhood gathering
places, leaders are proud of local donations—historical treasures that help
define their communities. “They know
that this is their library and that (their possessions) can end up in the
collection,” said George Needham, the recently hired director of the Delaware
County District Library, which includes the Delaware branch. The latest gift thrills Needham, a history
buff who thinks that almost anything in good condition that connects with
Delaware’s past should be considered for archiving. Bruce Campbell, a retired professor at the
University of Toledo Law School, called to tell Needham that he had items
collected as a teen from his late grandmother’s house on Liberty Street. Campbell helped preserve the family Bible and
a pastel portrait of Ransom Campbell, his great-great-grandfather and a Union
soldier in the Civil War. For 50 years,
he held onto the collection—which also includes an engraved walking stick,
family letters and photographs—even after his father told him to “throw all
this stuff out,” said Needham. “He
wasn’t going to do it.” “These materials
needed to come home,” said Campbell, who still lives in the Toledo area. “This
is where they belong.” The value to
genealogists and history buffs is great, said Needham, especially to those
interested in everyday life of the time.
Other libraries have similar collections. Westerville Public Library’s Local History
Center and Anti-Saloon League Museum has a large collection of local artifacts,
photographs and genealogical material unique to the city. Columbus Metropolitan Library’s
African-American Historical Collection has grown from a few hundred items to
tens of thousands of news clips, photographs, pamphlets, registries, posters,
and audio and video clips. The library also has
received artwork, and last year, a collection of legal documents and letters
related to desegregation of Columbus Public Schools in the 1970s was donated by
Joseph L. Davis, a former superintendent.
Grandview Heights Public Library has a digital archive of the Columbus Citizen and Columbus Citizen-Journal from
1912 to 1984. The collection can be
searched via the website http://www.photohio.org/#/id/i6135602,
which also holds documents from other libraries. The Delaware County District
Library also has collected board games and video games to lend. And it plans a digital library of
self-published books, said Nicole Fowles, library spokeswoman. Dean Narciso http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/01/16/history-too.html
Q:
Can you freeze hummus? A: Yes,
hummus can be frozen successfully, but it may lose some of its creamy texture
in the process. To remedy this problem, just add a drizzle of olive oil, and
give it a good stir before serving. http://frugalliving.about.com/od/freezingfoods/f/Can-You-Freeze-Hummus.htm
“In the case of
good books, the point is not to see
how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to
you.”
“Reading is a basic tool in the
living of a good life.” Mortimer J.
Adler (1902-2001) American educator, philosopher, and popular author
Loie Fuller (also Loïe
Fuller; 1862-1928) was an American dancer who was a pioneer of both modern
dance and theatrical lighting. She once
was the most famous dancer in the world, though some who saw her perform
wondered whether what she did was really dancing, and she herself had her
doubts. What brought her fame was her
way of manipulating voluminous folds of silk while having beams of colored
light play upon them. She may or may not
have been a true mistress of terpsichore, but she certainly taught the light to
dance. In fact, this woman did much,
much more than that. She broke the mold
of traditional choreography and prepared the way for the development of modern
dance. She helped to launch other
pioneers, among them Isadora Duncan. A
"magician of light," she made important contributions to stage
lighting and lesser ones to cinema techniques.
She became the personification of Art Nouveau, the inspiration for
artists who, idealizing her, portrayed her more often than any other woman of
her time. She, in turn, promoted the
work of her artist friends and was responsible for the founding of two art
museums. An inspiration for poets as
well as artists, she served as a symbol of the symbolist movement. Read Chapter One of Loie Fuller, Goddess of Light by Richard Nelson Current and Marcia
Wing Current at https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/current-loie.html Watch Danse Serpentine - Loie Fuller at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIrnFrDXjlk
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Iowa, Birthplace of Delicious Apples by Kurt Michael Friese One cool spring
morning, about 1880, Madison County farmer Jesse Hiatt was walking the rows of
his young orchard when he noticed a chance seedling growing between the
rows. Being an orderly man, he preferred
that his trees grow in an organized fashion, and he chopped the seedling
down. The seedling grew back the
following year, and so he chopped it down again. When the seedling sprouted back up a third
time, legend has it, Mr. Hiatt said to the tree, “If thee must grow, thee
may.” Hiatt nurtured the tree for ten
years. When it finally came to fruition,
Hiatt was pleased with the red and yellow streaked appearance and the sweet,
impressive flavor. He named it the
“Hawkeye” after his adopted home state, and began to seek a nursery to
propagate his discovery. He was turned
down by eight or ten of them before his big break came. He sent it to a contest in Louisiana,
Missouri, that was seeking new varieties of fruit trees, especially
apples. The Stark Bros. Fruit Company
held the competition as part of their search for an apple tree to replace the
then most popular tree, the Ben Davis.
While it had a nice appearance, durability in shipping, and weather
hardiness, the Ben Davis lacked flavor.
When Clarence Stark tasted the apple with the unusual oblong shape and
the distinctive five bumps on the bottom, he pronounced it “Delicious!” The Stark Bros Fruit Co. bought the rights to
Hiatt’s discovery, and began taking cuttings from the original tree at Hiatt’s
Winterset farm. Sixty years later, Stark
had sold more than 10,000,000 trees worldwide that were all descendants of that
original tree. They had renamed Hiatt’s
Hawkeye after Clarence Stark’s original pronouncement, and the Delicious apple
was on its way to complete domination of the apple industry. http://www.iowasource.com/apples-in-iowa-oct-03.html
New York Values, According to
New Yorkers http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/15/nyregion/new-yorkers-values.html
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who
dream only by night."--Edgar Allan Poe, poet and short-story writer (1809-1849)
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