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This story is the fourth in a series of profiles on Stanford’s 2021-22 transfer students. The unique cohort of 60+ undergraduates, who range in age from 18 to 51, brings a multitude of perspectives and life experiences to campus.

objective truth, you will like Charles Murrays new book, pub date June 15: Murray writes two distinctly different kinds of book, long and short. In the long books (most recently  Real Education, are more journalistic and less challenging for a reader not well-acquainted with statistics. (And I just noticed, looking up  Real Education for the link, that its full title includes the word "reality," just as this new books title does. Charles Murray, like your genial diarist, clings to a fusty, ...

Math Corner brainteaser. In the Math Corner at the end of my March Diary I stated a theorem about divisibility and challenged readers to prove it. My proof is here.  Dickens, Twain, and that tobacco.  Also in the March Diary I wondered if the reference to "Negro-head" tobacco in my 2003 Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Great Expectations, Chapter 40, was a bowdlerization of something slightly different in the 1861 original of that novel.  Several readers stepped up to that one. Sorry, Joh...

a- Ive gotten wa-a-a-ay behind with email, what with the holidays and all, so this goes all the way back to mid-December. Most recent items first. • Woo, Woom?   In the Math Corner segment of my December Diary I scoured the internet for interesting things to say about the number 2021. Among them I noted that  : If woo is your thing, youll be yearning to know the significance of 2021 as an Angel Number: "Angel number 2021 will try to convey to you that you are the creator of your life. Thi...