Osler's Razor

The Freshman curriculum at that time in the 1920's was entirely composed of a set of required classes. First semester, students were to take Old Testament, Birth of the Confederacy, Molar Removal and Replacement, Fabric and Design, and, of course, Rhetoric for the Educated Adolescent. Second semester, the required courses were New Testament, the War of Northern Aggression, Teeth and Ethnicity, Single Needle Stitching, and Rhetoric II: The Indoor Voice. As one might expect, the quality of these classes varied widely, but each imparted at least some wisdom; at this late date of life, graduates from the 1920's are still able to repair socks, recall the artwork on confederate currency of many denominations (eg; the ten-dollar bill bore a crude likeness of George Washington on one side and a sketch of a grits farm on the obverse), quote Levitticus at length, remove molars if necessary, and to respond to teenage grandchildren in their own tongue. Quite an education indeed!

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