oral history

A weekend party, a shaken nephew, and a sister’s solemn recollection: the question of whether F. Scott Fitzgerald once “pulled a gun” on Thornton Wilder is less a single, provable incident than a tangle of eyewitness memory, contemporary reporting, and later retellings — anchored, however, by a...

In its 65th year, Baylor’s Family Weekend stands as a living tradition: born in 1960 as a one-day chance for parents to meet professors and evolved into a full weekend that stitches family, faith, and campus life into a single communal experience. Background A tradition begins: Parents Day, 1960...

The Peradeniya campus, in the telling by Thalif Deen, is a place where scholarship and satire mixed as naturally as monsoon winds and mango trees — a compact world of rituals, inside jokes, high-table formalities and the kind of campus legends that survive generations. The Sunday Times piece...