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BumRushDaShow

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18. That's great!!
Sun Oct 24, 2021, 10:32 AM
Oct 2021


My dad was a computer programmer at the VA (back when it was still called the "Veterans Administration" ) from the mid-'50s to the mid-'70s (he died of a heart attack young at 50 sadly) and he was taught COBOL by Admiral Hopper (although she wasn't an Admiral at the time). My mom would tell us about how he raved about her.

I know the Harvard/Yale game was a big rivalry, like the UMASS/UCONN rivalry or interestingly, UMASS/Temple (both have similar shool colors).
that's huge. I bet stanford and Harvard will never do that. got to get that $$$ Demovictory9 Oct 2021 #1
This is huge Mary in S. Carolina Oct 2021 #2
The pessimist in me says that what they're really saying is that... NullTuples Oct 2021 #3
I agree Sherman A1 Oct 2021 #5
Nature vs. Nurture rages on bucolic_frolic Oct 2021 #4
This should always have been illegal Johnny2X2X Oct 2021 #6
When I was at (my alma mater) UMASS/Amherst BumRushDaShow Oct 2021 #7
When my daughter got into Mt. Holyoke someone remarked "Why is she going to an all girls school? CTyankee Oct 2021 #10
... BumRushDaShow Oct 2021 #11
My daughter loved it. She was and is pretty but she was terribly shy. Mt. Holyoke gave her CTyankee Oct 2021 #12
I do think BumRushDaShow Oct 2021 #13
Mt. Holyoke claims Emily Dickenson. Vasser claims Meryl Streep. CTyankee Oct 2021 #15
Well Dickinson BumRushDaShow Oct 2021 #16
I live in New Haven and it should be noted that Yale changed one of its residential colleges name CTyankee Oct 2021 #17
That's great!! BumRushDaShow Oct 2021 #18
The Game (as it is called) was always a point of controversy at my Thanksgiving dinner where my CTyankee Oct 2021 #19
.... BumRushDaShow Oct 2021 #20
misleading, since MOST "exclusive" colleges abandoned that practice years ago..... getagrip_already Oct 2021 #8
That's news to me. Do you have a link or reference? Thanks. TheRickles Oct 2021 #9
Fairer..but speaktruthtopower Oct 2021 #14
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