Harvey Mudd College - Spectrum Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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The Good Life Don a. Eichmann Engineer In the space of one hundred and seventy-sii yeara the lower Mississippi haa shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. I herefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic bilurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was up- wards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mex- ico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will only be a mile and three quarters long and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together and be plodding comfor- tably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain The Atlantic Monthly 36, 193 (1875) When you part from a friend, you grieve not; for that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. Kahlii Gibran 105

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f erii ¥ cJjuckwortn c. nqineenng REMEMBER . Space Invaders women ' s football, beer, Gerome in a coma. Mastermind, Fred, volleyball, Ross, Martha, broken finger, Don, Leslie, sprained ankles (3 of them!), mushrooms, water skiing, fruit wars, ' Welcome to the General D — oops!, Sarah, Apollo, Grand Ca- nyon, Ken, Gif, f r o s h runs, Mr. Mrs. C., An- nette, green hair, beer. Hell, DAC, South kegs, Women ' s pitza party, Ted, Dragons, Kaolas, Dave A., Valen- tine ' s Dance, LTG, voting. Bates, 21st b-days (all of them), break-in afi Scripps, volleyball, kahlua, Phelps, Fernando J., Eric M., Pinochle, napkin fights, head injury. Rolling Stones, Deepak, beer, Seth, Joe A., Queen, Anne and Helen, obscene phone calls, peanut butter, Tull, pizza. Magic Mountain, getting showered, I ' m clueless, Ron Lloyd, getting pooled, backrubs, Sam and Dave frosh, Christmas tree, peach brandy, Hamlett, first solo, fuzzy, E-54, Sad- dlerock, Frank Shelley, Mr. Baker, Bailey ' s, interviews, dorm president. Pine Mountain Lake, Bates bugs. Heartbreak Hotel, smile for free gas!, Uno, racquetball, H R ' s, juggling, neaner neaner neaner, Ramolap, midnight volleyball during finals. Systems (A), 42G, 62Q, cherry bomb, pool, pinball. lis education has been mode possi- ble by grants from the Duclfworth and Petit foundations. To them, my family and friends, I give my sincerest thanks.