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...passed on a few newsy nubbles about his famed relative: "You know, his father never thought that Winston had the brains for college. Winston got his education as a subaltern in the campaigns of the India frontier. He took with him to India three books, Macaulay's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a work by the Irish historian Lecky. When he returned, he was still in his early twenties, but he had received a liberal education from the study of these volumes. And when he was married, he read Carlyle...
...three other professional sojourns between 1928 and 1939 for as much as five months at a time. Chuckles Gunther: "When people ask how that s.o.b. dared visit a new country for three days and write about it like an authority, I feel like asking. 'How long did Gibbon spend in Constantinople?' Of course. Gibbon never visited Constantinople...
Princeton has but one good swimmer, Bob Gibbon, who swims the 100-yard freestyle and possibly either the 220 or 440-yard freestyles. He has done the 100 in 53.7, which is about the same time that Koni Ulbrich and Tom Cochran perform. Diver Al Routh is also a threat to defeat the Crimson's Greg Stone...
These two years could easily be compressed into one. An historian--Gibbon is a good example--reveals his philosophical position on such questions as causation and determinism by his interpretation of events. Abstract historical theory, which is frequently based upon analysis of the great chroniclers of history, should be combined in the sophomore year with the introduction to these historians. This plan would then allow the junior concentrator to investigate philosophical problems in terms of source material...
While ascending into the ethereal sublimities of intellectual adventure, the Harvard undergraduate's physical means of existence is crumbling beneath his palate. Artistically enticing as the preceeding may sound, the shocking fact is that the undergraduate's teeth are decomposing even as he reads Gibbon, Spengler, and Toynbee...