Inside Alma Mater

**** Reprint of the Knopf original of 1985 (which is distinguished by inclusion in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The second of a two-volume portrait of nineteenth-century Cambridge University, offering vivid descriptions of intellectual and social life.

…When a place, seeing as topos, wishes to become intelligible, noetos, then, that place must be circumscribed to the triad of educability – instructively – creativity, by fulfilling thus, the ontological thesaurus in human… …When a city, seeing as stronghold, aspires to become a polis of culture, as a Burg of Blessing, then the Blissburg must build up a dwelling of learning, an ALMA MATER, likewise as mother of blessing, Segensreiche Mutter, who must be in the same time beneficient for the ontological increasing of the burg, of the polis, towards a spiritual prosperity of it, ein Segenswunsch der BlissBurg… …When the Bistritz-Blissburg, geo-located into the Eastward of European Latinity, intercrossed by Greek culture, Latin culture, German Culture, Magyar culture, Slavonic culture, Hebrew culture, wishes to become an ALMA MATER BISTRICENSIS – AMB, then, all creative forces of the area must overcome difficulties and uncertainties of a such endeavor, by conjoining thus the jump from the Being of Society, GesellschaftsDasein towards the Ontological Being, OntologischeDasein, by rethinking thus another dimension of the Species Sapiens itself, towards UpSapiens in its maximal generality, Up-Sapiens in seiner Allgemeinerung, i.e., a truly ALMA MATER SAPIENSIS - AMS… BEING OF SIEBENBÜRGEN - SIEBENBÜRGENSDASEIN

Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don’t give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . . At the start of senior year at William & Mary, the six-foot-tall, raven-haired beauty Victoria “Vic” Savedge finds her future mapped out in detail. She will marry Charly Harrison, the son of one of Virginia’s most prominent families. Though branded by a fiery streak of independence, Vic hasn’t really considered any other options. Until she meets a woman named Chris. A transfer from Vermont, Chris is new to Southern mores and attitudes. Though instantly captivated by Vic, she is also drawn to the entire quirky but charming Savedge family. But the young women’s friendship is not your basic college-girl variety. For neither can resist their mutual attraction–an attraction that erupts into a passion that will forever change the course of both their lives.

…If ALMA MATER BISTRICENSIS – AMB, will become reality, then, and only then the human spirit could become a holy symbol for the human itself, by embodying thus the spirit of Antiquity, Homo res sacra homini… …If ALMA MATER BISTRICENSIS – AMB, will be raised through rational obstinacy, then the destiny of the BistritzBurg Siebenbürgen could write a line into the presentity of times, Nulla dies sine linea… …If even the books themselves, have their destiny, Habent sua fata libelli, then, also the ALMA MATER BISTRICENSIS – AMB must have its destiny through book – researching, through book – knowledge, by reitering thus the sacred thinking through which the Science itself is power, Scientia potestas… Historiologist