Weekend Essay: Graduation Isn’t an Ending — Now Accepting Students of All Ages

What place is there for unchanging, fully developed things in an ever- and fast-changing world? What claim could fully developed people make to a world when its future is said to belong to the young?

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Some of my 30-something friends dismiss as romantic prospects people who while on dates deign to ask, “What was your major?” The thinking, it seems, is that we are too far beyond our university years to trifle with such questions; that asking them somehow shows a juvenile sensibility.

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