Ghost story aficionados will note the setting - venerable college rooms tainted with an air of malice exerted by an inanimate object - and immediately recognise Hill's reverence for the work of Montague Rhodes James.
As Jim O'Connell, the venerable college basketball writer for the A.P., reported: The A.P. started choosing All-America teams after the 1947-48 seandn, and for the next six decades there was at least one member of the senior class on every first team.
I was there on what is known in the trade as a junket, jointly sponsored by the Cooper Union, New York's venerable college of architecture, art and engineering, and Brand Dubai, a governmental "media affairs" office the emirate established six months ago to spiff up its image, which, along with its economy, has lately taken a battering on account of the bursting of various bubbles.
After attending Oberlin, he served for two decades as the choir director at the Hampton Institute, the venerable black college in Virginia.
In my first year as an undergraduate at Oxford - this was 1977-78 - I lived on the ground floor of the Corpus Christi New Building, just across the road from the venerable old college itself.
Now, at age 87, Ms. Martindell has finally completed her Smith education: today, with all her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in attendance, she became the oldest person ever to graduate from the venerable women's college -- and the first to get a B.A. in American studies and an honorary doctor of laws degree on the same day.
Picture the archetypal college campus: venerable Gothic stone buildings, maple leaves aflame in autumn colors and students lounging with books on a wide, open lawn.
Mr. Stillman, who is 60, might be accused of idealizing some of the student body of Seven Oaks College, a venerable, prestigious and imaginary institution, but he is wholly innocent of the greater sin of condescension.
They laughed when Leon Botstein became president of Bard College in 1975, at the very idea that a 28-year-old could enliven a venerable New York liberal arts college.
The castle's inhabitants were supported by Catholic alms and lived a relatively comfortable existence; Garnet was complimentary about Wisbech, calling it a "college of venerable confessors".
The Chronicle of Higher Education, a venerable publication read by college faculty and administrators nationwide, has been sending invitations all over Washington, inviting policy experts, Capitol Hill staffers, media, and others to an October 19 panel discussion entitled "Student Loan Default Aversion: Forum on Research and Best Practices".
