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<li>You can read through an actual Gutenberg Bible (Beinecke Rare Books Library, I think)</li>
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<li>they have pianos for private practice everywhere...and sound isolation(lol)... :)</li>
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<li>What other school could graduate both Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush? :)
(Yeah, I know Clinton went to the Law School...)</li>
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<li>And Jodie Foster, too ! (lol)</li>
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<li>My favorite actor and the star of such films as Fight Club and American History X went to Yale: Edward Norton.</li>
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<li>AND THEY HAVE RAISINS TOO (love raisins:))</li>
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<li> [For architecture geeks only:] Frank Gehry teaches at the School of Architecture; Robert A. M. Stern is the Dean. (hahahaha)</li>
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<p>EDIT: explanation: :)
Gehry = über-modernist (crazy amorphous buildings)
Stern = über-traditionalist (my fav. architect, therefore I think it's great that he's in a position over Frank Gehry...haha)</p>
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<li>You can have an internship in the House of Lords (Britain) or Financial Times</li>
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<li>You can be tapped for Skull and Bones</li>
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<li>HARVARD SUCKS (at pranks, at least :))</li>
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<p>500th POST!!!!!</p>
<p>Skull and Bones - what's that? <em>curious</em></p>
<p>vivaldi87, congrats!)</p>
<p><em>shudders</em></p>
<p>extremely selective secret society; people are only tapped for it if Bonesmen think they have world-leader-esque potential; Bonesmen include George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and John Kerry...</p>
<p>MANY conspiracy theories revolve around Skull and Bones...</p>
<p>EDIT: Thanks! I've posted like crazy the last few days to get here! haha...</p>
<p>ohh thnx. <em>definitely shudders</em>
hey, I find myself posting like crazy 2)))</p>
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<li><p>Davenport has a Waterford crystal chandelier.........um yeah</p></li>
<li><p>Yale has one of the most impressive musical instrument collections in the world, all the way from the antique ones (clavicords, harpsichords, pianofortes, violins, recorders, etc) to...the organs...</p></li>
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<li>Beinecke has translucent marble windows.</li>
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<p>ohhhhhhhh, guys, you're making my decision much more difficult...yale or harvard...yale or harvard...or maybe penn...oh, i'm in trouble...</p>
<p>30) harkness tower and its pop music bell toons every day (and sunday unfortunately for anyone in branford)</p>
<p>31) The sterling memorial library, and its many grand reading rooms (and its hidden inner courtyard, which is phenomenal)</p>
<p>32) the amazing new refurbished gym, puts equinox to shame</p>
<p>33) The portrait of clinton in the law library </p>
<p>34) TOADS</p>
<p>35) Secret scultpure garden accesible by climbing out of JE's library windows (and for twenty dollars, find the secret passageway from the JE library seminar room to Skull and Bones). </p>
<p>36) Concerts in Woolsley</p>
<p>37) Silliman covered in snow</p>
<p>38) Master's tea's</p>
<p>39) the god quad, long live the god quad</p>
<p>40) etc..... could go one forever...</p>
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<li>The library is a freaking shrine to knowledge/Mother Yale. <a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/virtualtour/smlcirc.gif%5B/url%5D">http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/virtualtour/smlcirc.gif</a>
<a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/virtualtour/hall.gif%5B/url%5D">http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/virtualtour/hall.gif</a></li>
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<p>Holy Circulation Desk, Batman!</p>