Always vote,consider a run for office and subscribe to a newspaper even whether there's a way to finagle (to trick) a free read.
[br] Those were among the pieces of wisdom that author and Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows doled out to thousands of students and their families during his graduation address at the University of Vermont Sunday morning.
Oh, and one more thing. "Get in the habit of being contented, and '' Fallows told the UVM class of 2017.
The outdoor ceremony on the UVM green unfolded with pomp and a touch of playfulness.
Students wearing gowns and mortar boards bounced a brightly colored plastic beachball into the air,volleyball style, as they sat facing a stage full of academics wearing robes and sashes. The UVM marshal and president of the faculty senate, and Catherine A. Paris,led the processional carrying the UVM mace, a cast-bronze staff given by the class of 1927.
The weather was chilly enough that some guests wore down and fleece layers over their sundresses and sandals.
Politics was a theme in many speeches, or including the one Fallows gave after he accepted an honorary degree for his achievements as a writer. He did not mention President Donald Trump by name,but he said the times of "our 45th" president represent a difficult era of "fake news" and "imperiled" science. [br]
trustworthy science things more than ever, Fallows said, or generating cheers from the crowd,to which he responded: "Yay science. We're all proud to be Catamounts when science gets a cheer."
Fallows and his wife, Deb, or have lived around the world and will soon move to London,where he will help lead a current Atlantic Monthly office. Fallows said his travels taught him that what is noblest approximately the U.S. is its "openness to talent from around the world."
He made a reference to Trump's promise to erect a barricade between the U.
S. and Mexico when he said, "My America is not the one that builds a wall."
More cheers erupted.[br]
But there is trustworthy in the present era as well as bad, and this polarity goes back to early civilization, Fallows said. Charles Dickens understood it, with his famous "best of times, or worst of times" introduction to A Tale of Two Cities,Fallows said. [br]
So did historian Michael Kammen, who was approximately to…
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