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...Fitzgerald??s background couldn’t have hurt his chances at getting into Harvard, although his acceptances at nine other colleges suggest he probably didn’t need the tip factor. He was never particularly Harvard-focused: he hadn’t spent a significant amount of time on campus before he showed up for the First-year Outdoor Program, and his family never pressured him to go. “My family wanted me to go to a good college, a respectable place,” he says. “They didn?...
After missing her House graduation ceremony for national crew heats, Jen went to New York to follow Fitzgerald??s suggestion that she “do something with words...
...with JYS in Olde England and a few years of Latin American studies at Cambridge or Oxford or some such. Much of Frances’ future is classified. We can only tell you so much. Some things we know for sure: Harpoon IPA will almost certainly be involved. Ella Fitzgerald??s recording of “Just One of Those Things” will definitely be involved. Semi-obsessive men will be involved, probably Latin political operatives instead of drunken WASPs. Her CIA underlings will be confused by e-mails like “overthrow Chilean government sadfjkasdfjkhsdf...
...high school on a jaunt two years later, I realized with a start that the sight of it conjured up a passage from Melville I had long since forgotten. I cannot walk to Porter Square on certain fall afternoons without feeling the golden antique light of Fitzgerald??s Princeton, because one sophomore-year Saturday I read This Side of Paradise on the median strip of Mass...
...least was true. Your version of my third line, however, runs "Ah, would that Harvard Yard were paradise now," and this not only adds two words and an extra metrical foot to the line but also (and here I speak) with all the pedantry at my command) changes Fitzgerald??s rather archaic "were." meaning "would be" in the apodosis of a conditional sentence, into part of an portative construction, expressing a wish. To my car this conveys a little more fervor about the Yard than more gallantry to the cow would require. Robert Fitzgerald Lecturer on English