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...Harvard. My Yale, especially for a current student at one of the two. Chief among them are the illuminating contrasts it provides: between two different experiences at the same university, and also between one campus and the other. Benjamin Spock (of Baby and Child Care fame) and Thomas Bergin, now a Yale Italian professor, both went to Yale in the class of '25, and both write vividly of being outcasts from a rock-ribbed social structure that bestowed status upon athletes and club-members alone. Spock overcame his loneliness by becoming a hard-working crew star (and eventually feels guilty...
Acting Lt. James E. Bergin of Cambridge Fire Rescue Unit Four, the first medical attendant to see Hamilton, said yesterday the victim was "conscious" when first discovered 20 minutes after the collision...
...lying in the bushes with his left leg severed at the shin and about ten feet away from him." Bergin said, adding that "his right leg was broken above the ankle and his right foot was partially amputated...
...think he lost the right foot, too," Bergin added...
...Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Translated by Thomas G. Bergin, with illustrations by Leonard Baskin. 867 pages. 3 vols. Grossman. $75. A Dante scholar and professor of Romance languages at Yale offers a translation that tries to stay faithful to Dante's poetic rhythms but wisely avoids any attempt to match his terza rima rhyme scheme. As in many translations of classics, there are disquieting changes in well-known lines. Gary's familiar 1814 "All hope abandon, ye who enter here," for instance, becomes "Bid hope farewell, all ye who enter here." It may be more reflective...