In honor of the archives issue, we dedicated this week’s Blinks to answering the question: What’s the most interesting story you’ve found in the Spectator archives?

For this week’s Blinks, we asked our staffers to dig out the tiny traditions that have taken shape in their own day to day lives. The little pieces of repetition or habit that hold greater meaning. From paper submissions to salads, and late emails to libraries, here are the results:

In 1962, the Great Books Curriculum course Humanities A was officially designated Literature Humanities—the course we students have come to see as definitive of the Columbia College experience. Upon the 75th anniversary of the Core Curriculum in 1994, Jacques Barzun, widely regarded as the father of the Core, remarked, "The truth is that in learning about the West, one learns an enormous amount about the rest of the world. … It is on the contrary the present fad for courses about separate regions and peoples that is too narrow."