Tech Tower, via Wikipedia
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
SEPT. 17, 2024 | Those of you who are a student at Georgia Tech, or are sending an offspring to Georgia Tech, may have missed this item last week. You may find it very interesting.
The Wall Street Journal had an item about the top ten colleges, as they said, “which make students rich.” Georgia Tech ranked fourth in the nation on this list. The top three universities were MIT, Stanford and Princeton.
Rounding out the top ten were the University of Pennsylvania, California Institute of Technology, Harvey Mudd College, Babson College, Missouri University of Science and Technology (at Rolla), and Carnegie Mellon University.
Cheers for those students from Gwinnett at Georgia Tech. Sounds like when you graduate, you will be among those in serious company when it comes to doing well.
All this made us curious. We had never heard much about Harvey Mudd and Babson.
Harvey Mudd is in Claremont, Calif., part of the Claremont Colleges. It was begun in 1957 and focuses on science and engineering. It had 911 undergraduate students in 2024. It has a football team in the California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The college is named for the engineer who ran a company in Los Angeles, which mined copper in Cyprus. Mudd also was vice president of the board of trustees for the California Institute of Technology. He also helped found Claremont McKenna College.
Babson College says it is a different college. It has been named by the Wall Street Journal as the second best college in the United States. It focuses on entrepreneurship as its core competency across academic pursuits, aiming to build business leaders. It is located just outside Boston in Wellesley, Mass. It has 2,500 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students. The average cost to attend is $77,248 for each year. Unlike Georgia Tech, it does not have a football team.
New subject: When living in South Georgia in Jesup years ago, a Georgia Revenue agent, the late Babe Davis, came into the office one afternoon, suggesting to go with him to a moonshine still, only about 3-4 miles from town, in a small patch of woods off Lanes Bridge Road. When we got there, the illegal liquid was still dripping out of a coil in a small stream. “Want to taste?” he asked. He caught some of the new liquor in a cup. The stuff was harsh on my throat.
But it was the sensation of the moonshine that surprised me: the moonshine was hot! Of course it was hot, just previously having been steam before it became liquid.
Years later, when in Maine, I was at a “sugarhouse” where they were boiling sap for maple syrup. The sap came to the sugarhouse in a big open vat on a wagon pulled by a horse. The operator asked me if I wanted to taste a sample of the sap.
He took a cup and dipped it into the vat. The liquid had a slightly sweet taste, since it takes 40 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup. But as at the moonshine still, the sensation was altogether different, and quite surprising. It was COLD. Of course, it was. The outside temperature that day was about 40 degrees F.!
Two liquids, one illegal, the other about to become syrup, but entirely different in temperature.
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