Two things:

• From the inimitable Louis Menand:

  "[M]y father got a call form the headmaster of [my] school... The headmaster said that he was expecting to speak soon with the admissions office at the single Ivy League college to which, on the meadmaster's advice, I had applied. He was wondering whether my father planned to attend a local cocktail-party fund-raiser for my school that Sunday...."

• My referer gizmo seems to be working.