What's in a name?

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<p>I felt compelled to look up geoduck…</p>

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<p>Recently, Jeopardy held its College tournament and a young man from Harvey Mudd made it to the finals and placed 3rd–winning $25,000. Students from Harvard and Yale didn’t make it past the opening round and went home with $2 and $0 respectively. So much for names! ;)</p>

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<p>I think Pennsylvania in general has some of the strangest place names, let alone college names. Not only do we have towns of Blueball, Intercourse and Bird in Hand but we have the aforementioned Beaver (now Arcadia), Slippery Rock and Ursinus Colleges and the state has two colleges named Indiana University of Pennsylvania and California University of PA. How confusing is that?</p>

<p>Speaking of mascots, my son’s school, Roanoke College, is the Maroons. I can only picture of big Crayola crayon. This Spring they decided to search for a live mascot and got some very funny suggestions: [Classic</a> College](<a href=“classiccollege.com”>http://www.classiccollege.com/)</p>

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<p>McDaniel College is home of the Green Terror. Don’t know what it is, but it sounds sort of neat.</p>

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<p>OK, not a college, but Orofino High School in Idaho is home to the state mental hospital. The high school’s mascot has been the Maniacs for as long as anyone can remember.</p>

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<p>I’m sorry, but I think that the award for the college with the worst name has to go to Transylvania in Kentucky. The school actually is not a bad little school, but anyone not from Kentucky thinks it is a joke!</p>

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<p>When I was younger, I was afraid of Yale because it rhymed with “jail.” Yeah, I know.</p>