Calling all Huskies! Did you get the memo? Today is White and Blue Day and we should all have on our “Fairest White and Blue.â€
Connecticut, Connecticut,
Thy sons and daughters true
Unite to honor thy name,
Our fairest White and Blue.
If you missed the memo, you should turn around right now, go back home or to your room, and put on your blue-and-white Husky gear. A black shirt that says UConn won’t do. A gray pullover with Connecticut across the front won’t do either. White and blue.
These colors date back to the founding of the school.  They’ve been steadfast, and so should we. So let’s see a little Husky Spirit today around the campuses and at events this weekend. Be safe and be proud!
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UConn’s William Benton Museum of Art in Storrs is hosting a Summer Weekend Comedy Film Festival featuring classics from the 1930s and 1940s:
Saturday, July 11:Â Â It Happened One Night (1934)
Sunday, July 12: Â Â Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Saturday, July 18: Â Â Destry Rides Again (1939)
Sunday July 19:Â Â My Little Chickadee (1940)
Saturday, July 25:Â Â A Night at the Opera (1935)
Sunday July 26:Â Â Ninotchka (1939)
Saturday, August 1:Â Â My Man Godfrey (1936)
Sunday, August 2:Â Â Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Showtime is 2 p.m. Admission is free to the films and the exhibitions, A Touch of Humor and Punch & Judy: Handpuppets, Politics & Humor. Saturday and Sunday hours at the Museum are 1-4:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday hours are 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The museum will be closed July 3-8 and will re-open at 10 a.m. on
July 9.
Punch and Judy
And on Thursday, July 2, at 12:15 pm, Ballard Institute and Museum Director John Bell will give a Gallery Talk on the current Punch & Judy exhibition.
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Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Brooke, of course, wrote about England but the sentiments apply equally to our own Memorial Day.
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A great cartoon by Zack and Keith in yesterday’s Daily Campus. They’ve captured my daily morph from gregarious university president to WWF wrestler emeritus to green giant undergoing anger management.
He forgot where he was going with this, but I have a suggestion:
Kermit, The President
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Shoveling at UConn in the 1920s
It’s snowing outside my window as I write this. The campus is quiet. Over on Horsebarn Hill the horses stand patiently, white blankets forming across their backs. It’s a good day to make a cup of hot cocoa, sit in my favorite chair, and pick up that book I’ve been wanting to read all semester.
I’m going to take a couple of weeks off from my blog-writing but will resume after New Year’s Day. In the meantime, Virginia and I wish everyone a very happy and peaceful holiday. See you in 2009!
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