February 2012
39 posts
Anonymous asked: What year did you graduate from Reed?
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Olde Reed: Draft avoidance in style
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Wayne Grytting
At Reed you couldn’t just avoid the draft. You had to do it with style. People got style points for how they went about doing it. For example, my roommate, Eric Manzer [‘71], when he had to go down to the draft board he got dressed up. His girlfriend assisted him. He wore one of…
This is funny, but it would’ve just been cool to admit “Sorry, we’re...
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Futile Pleas
godsprofoundestpeons reblogged your post: Football Entertainment
Stop making me miss Reed, damnit!
Nope, not a chance.
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Public Service Announcement
I just got a notice that the Spider God movie I ILLed has arrived. Be prepared for massive numbers of screencaps. So excited.
Olde Reed in action
@Anomalily: "You're Olde Reed when you realize the incoming freshmen won't get your Catalogue of Ships jokes."
@ReedSwitchboard: @anomalily So true. This weekend on campus they knew the first line of the Odyssey & I felt like we no longer spoke the same language.
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A 1968 essay on where Reed is going from Jim Webb,...
We are all involved in an orgiastic and sacramental investigation of self-interest. Where are we going? I am obviously invited to represent the “kook” point of view. The point of being the kook point of view is I am institutionally certified as being allowed to be irrelevant. I am supposed to think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable. I will see if I can.
First, I agree with everyone. I am...
“Sinking deeper into depravity, dope, nudity, peace, love, grapefruit, flowers,...”
– [“Spider God”, the movie, directed by Will Baker and essentially a close Baker/Webb collaboration made as an experiment in biography-autobiography, was shown as a work in progress May 13, 1969 and had its premier in September 1969. The following is the text for the poster worked up to...
“Oh I don’t know, you shouldn’t have asked me, really, I wonder why you asked me…...”
– Owen Ulph, from “The Spider God,” the 1968 movie about Jim Webb. Spider God Lives
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A brief explanation of Jim Webb, the Spider God
“Jim Webb appeared on the Reed campus in 1965 as a new professor in literature and humanities and departed seven years later. His short career was memorable and controversial…
Webb enlisted collaboration from certain colleagues and creative students in preparing a famous series of lectures on Victorian times, which combined paintings, photographs, lithographs, music, and living...
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“The Library Liberation Front beer bust doesn’t sound familiar offhand,...”
– REED COLLEGE - Reed Stories
Anonymous asked: What are the expected SAT scores to go into reed
January 2012
47 posts
The Early History of the Owl
“House distinction was rife when House F, preceding its annual dance, proudly placed a large stone owl on the roof over their entrance. There it sits in silent mystery, for it holds a story with an unsolved past. Of course, it was rather a challenge, so one dark night, before the F dance, the owl flew off, F knew not where. A most diligent search was made, but all to no avail. Sunday the...
