When I was an undergrad at Harvard, the students in our class were given the opportunity to vote for commencement speaker. The winner, as it turned out was a request to get both Snoopy and Woodstock from the Peanuts comics.<\/p>\n
The University declined that request, possibly for logistical reasons. But the choice got me thinking.<\/p>\n
I remember telling a fellow classmate “It’s too bad that Snoopy and Woodstock did not give this year’s Commencement Address. We would finally have had a complete set of speakers.”<\/p>\n
“What do you mean?” he asked.<\/p>\n
“I mean,” I said, “that for the first time we would have had both a woofer and<\/i> a tweeter.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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