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Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

Calvin Coolidge

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Calvin Coolidge
Age: 60 †
Born: 1872
Born: July 4
Died: 1933
Died: January 5
30Th U.S. President
Autobiographer
Lawyer
Politician
Statesperson
Plymouth Notch
Vermont
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
President Coolidge
J. C. Coolidge
C. Coolidge
Friends
Moving
Graveyard
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Curriculum
Trying
Changing
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Friendship
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College
Move
Dead

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