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...that. Kissinger's linguistic ability quickly won him a post as a translator and interrogator in counterintelligence and, eventually, a job teaching modern German history to officers. He also raised his sights. Germanborn Fritz Kraemer, an Army instructor who became his friend and mentor, informed him that "gentlemen do not go to the College of the City of New York," so Kissinger obtained a scholarship and went to Harvard...
...strong case for the moral commitment which liberal Harvard gentlemen bring to the military would be difficult to make. The wounded and homeless of Indochina could best testify to the "humanizing" influence of Harvard men such as Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, James Schlesinger '50, Henry Kissinger '50, Elliot Richardson '41, and Louis F. Fieser, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, Emeritus, and the inventor of napalm...
...short, you will be coopted. Professors call it socialization. New Englanders may say something about learning to be gentlemen. And some presumptuous fools think they are just assuming their proper god-given place in the high ranks of mankind. Nevertheless, you will be coopted...
...bother you, tell you what to do, or notice when you skip a class. Heaven forbid a professor or student telling you how to live your life. They are not saying grow up on your own, learn to be a man, but rather, come and join the ranks of gentlemen, it's so good I doubt you can resist for long...
Students take different tacks, some relying on friendships and others on study. Both paths work. Gentlemen do not believe in the strict merit system, they hire friends because they know and trust them. Gentlemen also enjoy competence, and hire the best new crop of lawyers or MBAs. And if you are one of the best and the brightest, why not work for the wealthy and the powerful and take the fringe benefits...