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Princeton's percentage of students receiving financial aid had dropped to 39 percent last year--an embarrassing five or six points below schools like Harvard in a era painfully conscious of diversity. Alumni were talking about a "lingering F. Scott Fitzgerald aura...
...There were a lot of big wins," said sophomore outside hitter Allison Fitzgerald. "It's hard to pick a biggest...
...Katherine Hart was phenomenal," Fitzgerald said...
Nearly 80 years later, Fitzgerald's words speak even more truly to my generation than they did to his: We are children cradled to the sound of a crooning Bob Dylan and formed in the materialistic '80s and sober '90s. We have romantic conceptions of the true meaning of student activism and have had austere lessons in the failure of pithy aphorisms and the inevitability of complexity and, often, inaction. We are a generation burdened with the memory of attempted change and of subsequent half-success or failure...
...stumbled upon these quotes unaware the other day. I was cleaning out my desk drawer and found the index cards filled with words. The power of Fitzgerald jumped out at me again, differently this time. Never had I so fully identified with his lost generation, called by the tolling of bells as my class will be as we commence, palpably surrounded by the spirit of the past and of Harvard tradition, even as we take our leave of this home. I have learned the old creeds alongside the new, and together they make for a difficult lesson. We are taught...