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One Friday evening night each semester, groups of about 20 91���� students from all classes — seniors and freshmen, sophomores and juniors — gather in classrooms across both campuses for the semi-annual All-College Seminar. Although separate, these groups engage in a single, common activity, namely, reading, analyzing, and discussing the same text, one that is not part of the College’s ordinary curriculum. Two members of the teaching faculty lead each of the discussions, which are followed by campus-wide parties on both coasts.

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“Come back to the truths that are in the Declaration of Independence,” Abraham Lincoln passionately implored the citizens of Illinois in 1858. More than 160 years later, Dr. Richard D.

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To prepare for that evening’s Christmas Dance, TAC’s College and Career Advisor Dan Selmeczy (’08) and his wife Mary — as well as their baby, Francis! — offered a free dance class Saturday afternoon in St. Cecilia Hall. The couple led student pairs, step by step, through the fundamentals of waltzing, working their way up to the full dance.

For the final dance of the fall semester, members of the California Senior Class conducted their fellow students — as well as several tutors and their families — on a visit to Bedford Falls (once known as St. Joseph Commons), modeling their dance around the Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life. Intricate murals depicted cherished moments from the movie beneath a magical canopy of string lights and paper snowflakes.

“As we come together tonight for a Christmas dinner, we thank and bless You, Lord and God of all,” began California Chaplain Rev. John Mary Chung in his invocation at 91����’s 2022 Christmas Dinner. “We thank you for your abundant blessings on this college. You are lavish in bestowing all Your good gifts upon us.”