"What other colleges call fraternities,
Princeton calls Eating Clubs."
Illustrated below:
The Restaurant Quarré in Berlin,
with a view of the Brandenburg Gate.
Related etymology:
OF.
quarré square, F.
carré,
from L.
quadratus square...
--
Webster's Revised
Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Related material:
(1) A symbol of symmetry
that might have pleased
Hermann Weyl:
Source --
Timothy A. Smith on
Bach's Fugue No. 21,
the Well-Tempered
Clavier, Book II
(
pdf or
Shockwave)
(2) The remarks of Noam D. Elkies
on his
"
Brandenburg Concerto No. 7":
"It is of course an act of chutzpah,
some would say almost heresy,
to challenge Bach so explicitly
on his own turf."
(3) The five Log24 entries
culminating
on Pi Day,
March 14, 2006
(4) The following
event at the
Harvard University
mathematics department
on March 14, 2006, also
featuring Noam D. Elkies:
"At 3:14 p.m., six contestants began
a pie-eating contest.... Contestants had
exactly
three minutes and 14 seconds
to eat as much pie as they could.
'Five, four, pi, three, two, one,'
Elkies counted down as the
contestants shoved the last
mouthful of pie
into their mouths...."
Noam D. Elkies
(5) The Magic Schmuck
