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Faculty Focus: Religion & Politics

A significant gift will help the College’s Institute in Religion, Politics and Culture expand programming and opportunities for students.
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Van Hollen Visit

During his visit to Washington College,Senator Chris Van Hollen tours the new Hodson Boathouse and urges students to get out and vote.

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Revolutionary Chesapeake

The Chesapeake Regional Studies program offers a new course in material culture and experimental archaeology that includes an extraordinary week in Colonial Williamsburg.

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Veterans Day
Veterans and community members are invited to a Veterans Day brunch at Hodson Dining Hall on Sunday Nov. 11, where a special recognition of WC’s World War I veterans will be on display helping mark the centennial of the Great War’s end.
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Oceans Away

A double major in biology and theater introduces dramatic arts to schoolchildren in Zanzibar.

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Bi-coastal Biology

From lichens growing on Maine granite to bacteria growing on the Mars rover, Picabo French ’19 spent her summer exploring biology with methods and purpose as diverse as her subjects.

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Brain Power

For his senior capstone project, Josh Samuels ’19, a double major in psychology and biology with a concentration in behavioral neuroscience, investigates physical exercise as an organic relief for depression.

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<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"> 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"> 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"> 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"> 39th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> In writing or Speaking, give to every Person his due Title According to his Degree & the Custom of the Place.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 110th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> Labour to keep alive in your Breast that Little Spark of Celestial fire Called Conscience.</p></div>
<div class="lw_blurbs_title"> 2nd</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> When in Company, put not your Hands to any Part of the Body, not usually Discovered.</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"> 44th</div><div class="lw_blurbs_body"><p> When a man does all he can though it Succeeds not well blame not him that did it.</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"> 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"> 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"> 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>
<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>

from Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation