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Describes universities like Harvard and can be poisonous.
Sometimes I am loud. And viewed with distaste. Poke out my 'eye', then I'm on the front of your face.
My life is often a volume of grief, your help is needed to turn a new leaf. Stiff is my spine and my body is pale. But I'm always ready to tell a tale.
I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander.
What tastes better than it smells?
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows.
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What am I?