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$2 Million For GIS Program
Winning its third Maryland Department of Commerce E-Nnovation grant in a row and with $1 million matched by The Hodson Trust, Washington College gains $2 million to expand its GIS program.
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Business Smarts
A business management major who serves as vice president of Washington College’s chapter of the American Marketing Association has been tapped to receive a 2018 Sigma Beta Delta (SBD) Fellowship Award.
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Shooting for Inclusion
Varsity basketball player Taylor Samuels ’20 takes a leadership role in building a stronger culture of inclusion across campus.
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Take a Virtual Tour of Our Beautiful Campus
Want to experience our campus? Now you don’t even have to leave your desk.
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Grabbing the Gold
This video teaser for Washington College’s newest varsity program—trap and skeet—took first place in the Marcom short-form web video production category.
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Global Citizens
Two political science majors took part in this year’s Student Conference on U.S. Affairs (SCUSA), held each fall at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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Toxic to Tadpoles

Young scientists present amphibian study at a national forum on environmental toxicology.

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<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 35th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 73rd</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> Think before you Speak pronounce not imperfectly nor bring out your Words too hastily but orderly & distinctly.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 17th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> Be no Flatterer, neither Play with any that delights not to be Played Withal.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 29th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> When you meet with one of Greater Quality than yourself, Stop, and retire especially if it be at a Door or any Straight place to give way for him to Pass.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 80th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> Be not Tedious in Discourse or in reading unless you find the Company pleased therewith.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 82nd</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 28th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> If any one come to Speak to you while you are Sitting Stand up though he be your Inferior, and when you Present Seats let it be to every one according to his Degree.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 54th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to See if you be well Decked, if your Shoes fit well if your Stockings sit neatly, and Clothes handsomely.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 63rd</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> A Man ought not to value himself of his Achievements, or rare Qualities of wit; much less of his riches Virtue or Kindred.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 50th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> Be not hasty to believe flying Reports to the Disparagement of any.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 60th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> Be not immodest in urging your Friends to Discover a Secret.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 14th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> Turn not your Back to others especially in Speaking, Jog not the Table or Desk on which Another reads or writes, lean not upon any one.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 24th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> Do not laugh too loud or too much at any Public Spectacle.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 34th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> It is good Manners to prefer them to whom we Speak before ourselves especially if they be above us with whom in no Sort we ought to begin.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 65th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> Speak not injurious Words neither in Jest nor Earnest Scoff at none although they give Occasion.</p></div>

from Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation