Like many college freshmen today, 18-year-old Mortimer Marcellus Leggett had high hopes when he entered Cornell University in the fall of 1873. He planned to become a patent lawyer like his father and aspired to join the school's chapter of the prestigious Kappa Alpha Society. About a month later, young Mort Leggett's battered body had to be retrieved from the bottom of one of the gorges that Ithaca, New York, is famous for after a Kappa Alpha initiation activity went horribly wrong.

In the hurly-burly of a Silicon Valley life cycle, the détente between Facebook, the purchasing company, and Instagram, the purchased company, never should have lasted this long.

You can teach your football-loving friends a thing or two about the sport of rugby, starting with this term. SportsSpeak Explained is an occasional series on unusual sports terms we need to know for the games we play — and watch. SportsSpeak Explained is an occasional series on unusual sports terms we need to know. SportsSpeak Explained is an occasional series on unusual sports terms we need to know.

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Society, in certain places and spaces, seems to spend a lot of capital honoring and exalting perfection. So openly facing and discussing your imperfections? Almost impossible to comfortably get the floor to do so. And something especially true when it comes to mental health. But Eleanor Roosevelt once famously said "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

What's next for capitalism and currencies, poverty and the planet? Find out with this OZY original series: Economies of the Future. Economies of the Future: What's next for capitalism and currencies, poverty and the planet? What's next for capitalism and currencies, poverty and the planet? Find out with this OZY original series: Economies of the Future.

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I cared for my daughter like I cared for most men I've loved. I served. My capacity for love was bottomless. I was a reservoir of kindness, stocked with unimaginable patience. My giving was spontaneous and effortless, a pleasure until I couldn't do it another second and I wanted them to make their own goddamn sandwiches and leave me the fuck alone. Having a child leave for college should be the best-case scenario for someone like me.

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Lonely ListeningWhen you're suffering from the blues and feeling lonesome, music beckons. The fulfillment found in crying your miserable eyes out to a song that says exactly how you feel? Oh, so cathartic, so miserably satisfying.Even if it's bad for you. People "should not listen to music similar to their emotional state," says Lisa Phillips, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist at Cognitive Therapy Orange County, "unless it is happy [or the] song has a hopeful message to it.