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...partly raised in Russia, where his father, an engineer, was designing the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad for Czar Nicholas I. Doubtless the Russian fixation on rank impressed him; in any case, he began to insist quite early in his life that he was no prosaic Yankee, but a Southern gentleman from Baltimore, Maryland. He enrolled at West Point, but was flunked in 1854 for his cluelessness about chemistry. "Had silicon been a gas," he would say later, "I would have been a major-general...
Former Harvard president Derek C. Bok said that Price "was almost the most perfect gentleman [he] ever dealt with at Harvard...
Aaron knew Robinson quite well, describing him as an "athlete and gentleman...
Dennis Conner, the consummate yachtsman if not the consummate gentleman, is even more of a celebrity in New Zealand than in the U.S. Way Down Under, where sailing is a serious sport, the San Diego skipper is known not only as Mr. America's Cup, though, but also as Dirty Dennis. The moniker stems from his having publicly accused the Kiwis of cheating in 1987, when they were on the verge of winning the Cup's Challenger series. The charge was officially discounted, but the flustered New Zealanders, despite a 37-1 record in the trials, came unglued. Conner went...
...distinguished gentleman from the Salient, Matt L. Bruce '96, may have printed the names a bit too early, but let's not be too critical. After all, we commend Mr. Bruce for his efforts to grab corporate sponsorship for the competition, by running the names of the Levenson winners within a box advertising Domino's Pizza...