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...typical Harvard student probably lived in a boarding house when he first arrived. By senior year, he moved into a coveted room in the Yard. He probably joined a final club, graduated after earning many gentleman's C's, married a Wellesley woman and became a banker...
...Europe, where he was deeply impressed by the German university system. America, he wrote, must develop "a system of education based chiefly upon the pure and applied sciences, the living European languages, and mathematics . . . The vulgar argument that the study of the classics is necessary to make a gentleman is beneath contempt...
Meanwhile, one gentleman picketed with thesign, "I'm glad I went to Williams,Williams is divesting" written in theWilliams purple...
...Based on a reputation for valor, acquired by stumbling into dangerous places at well-publicized times, the intrepid Flashman becomes Britain's semiofficial envoy to the revolutionaries. His escapades, both military and carnal, bring verve and wit to a carefully footnoted tale. Young Tom Brown was certainly more the gentleman, but he could not possibly have grown up to be so much...
Baseball has always been a gentleman's sport...