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New academic society proves history is alive

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Published Tuesday, October 9, 2007
During my senior year of high school, the first question any adult would ask me was, “Where are you going to college?” After I announced to him or her that I would be attending Yale, he or she would quickly follow up that query with, “What will your major be?” When I answered that I was planning on majoring in history, the questioner typically snickered, as if I would be wasting my time, and ended the extremely awkward exchange with, “Why history?”
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