“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous”
Yehudi Menuhin
“The essays are all-essay exams. The average American student taking essay exams? Are you kidding me? Oh, that would never happen.”
Victoria Brinton
“Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.”
David McCord
“I've heard about restaurants being sold on e-Bay auctions, and restaurants being sold through essays, but this is the first one I've known about in this area.”
Byron Jones
“Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire.”
William Blum
“The students turn their applications in to the Dean of Students office, and then all members read the essays without knowing their name or face. And then we vote accordingly.”
William Shaffer
