How St. Remedius Students Recovered From Finals (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Many institutes of higher learning have traditions at the end of the school year, particularly around finals. Whether Caltech’s Ditch Day or Southern Methodist University’s Running of the Coke Dealers, most involve releasing stress just before or just before the main rush of final exams. St. Remedius Medical College took the theme to…
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St. Remedius Medical College: “What Lurks Beneath the Bluebonnets”
(Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Lupinus texensis. Bluebonnet. The Texas state flower. After the last chance of freeze throughout the state, usually around the middle of March, millions of bluebonnets sprout in otherwise barren or at least nutrient-depleted locales, bloom, drop seeds, and then die, all before the middle of spring. Most humans in the Dallas area look at bluebonnet patches as scenic locales for…