The campus has truly started to look like it might be Autumn after all. A cold front moving across West Tennessee has issued in what feels like cooler weather at least for a day or two. Leaves are turning and starting to fall on campus making the lawn look like a multi-colored carpet of gold, red, and green.
A second display is being constructed in the library using famous or influential people born in the month of October. Check out the display table for copies of books such as Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals or the autobiography of businessman, Lee Iacocca, former CEO of the Chrysler Corporation. These books will be on display for most of the month of October.
Word of the Day: elucidate (verb) to make clear; to explain.
Answer to the last trivia question: The man who valiantly served his country in the Army and later as 34th president of the United States is Dwight D. Einsenhower. As president he ended the Korean War, kept pressure on the Soviet Union during the cold war, reoriented the defense budget toward nuclear weapons, enlarged the Social Security system, and built the interstate highway system in the United States. Dwight D. Einsenhower was born on 14 October.
Trivia Question for the Day: What "number" is the speed of an object measured in multiples of the speed of sound, often applied to jets?
Check the next blog entry for the answer to today's trivia question. Hope everyone has a great day!
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