Mount Saint Vincent University is a liberal arts university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was established in 1873.
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“If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, in Truro.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!
No more Saint Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his colour can’t be seen,
For there’s a cruel law agin the wearin’ o’ the Green!”
—Unknown. The Wearing of the Green (l. 37–40)
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Who from the loud gregarious town
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To the still woods, to fling him down.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
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—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)