Despite claims posted across campus that rain would fall on Serendipity, nothing but the greatest weather met the celebration. Sunday morning found most of the campus slightly deserted, but a few lounged outside in the warm sun amid the remnants of the two day party. Beer cans, cups, and all assortments of revelry littered the campus, and not just on the lawns: the halls in Binford were strewn with everything from pizza boxes to ceiling tiles. Yet all this trash and subsequent clean-up could only have come from a really great three-day party.

I mean, it’s spring. Why not celebrate?

SER’EN-DIP-IT-Y
1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
2. The fact or occurence of such discoveries.
3. An instance of making such a discovery.

WORD HISTORY:

We are indebted to the English author Horace Walpole for the word “serendipity”, which he coined in one of the 3,000 or more letters on which his literary reputation primarily rests. In a letter of January 28, 1754, Walpole says that “this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word.”

Walpole formed the word on an old name for Sri Lanka, Serendip. He explained that this name was part of the title of “a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of….

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