Greetings To Huey the Deliberately Synthetic St. Bernard (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Every institute of higher learning has the same problem with its student body: trying to convince the majority that they aren’t able to dodge speeding bullets or leap tall buildings on a diet of ramen and beer. Whether the school is an ultrafocused research and development facility pressing the absolute limits of…
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St. Remedius Medical College: “For Whom the Owl Hoots”
In Dallas, the Superb Owl Is More Than One Day (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Dallas, Texas has a very special and specific tradition: the ability to turn any ethnic or parochial holiday, no matter how obscure, into an excuse for a majority of its citizenry to drink themselves into comas. St. Patrick’s Day? Cinco de Mayo? Mardi Gras? Oktoberfest? Belo Glasnost? All are opportunities…