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...along I saw these and many other precautions as part of a losing battle. "My grandfather was bald," I figured. "So shall I be bald." I tried to console myself with visions of great bald men from history: Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Alan Brinkley. But to no avail. I was just not in their league. I would just be bald. Old and bald...
...others see The Game as a way for both schools to affirm their superiority to the other Ivies. Alan Brinkley, associate professor of American History and a Princeton grad, says, "I think it's a way in which Harvard and Yale confirm their view of themselves as being special places...
...Brinkley said the first factor which encouraged him to become a professor was his childhood as part of a public family. As the son of newscaster David Brinkley, "I began as a young boy to attend national political conventions," and he said this made him aware of American politics and culture...
Secondly, although he said he was not a radical, the experience of being a college student in the political 1960s became "a kind of prism" through which his generation now views the world, Brinkley said...
...Thirdly, Brinkley cited his study of the American South as a Princeton undergraduate. "It was my interest in the South and my emersion in the history of the South that made me a historian," he said...