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Perhaps some of that cynicism developed when Latham was himself an undergraduate at Harvard almost thirty years ago. "The sweater still fits," he admits, "but I would hesitate to display the numerals. (Class of 1930). Coming from Brockton High School, "where everybody knew everybody," Latham entered the cold, impersonal atmosphere of Harvard during the lingering days of the Gold Coast...
Latham, who is married and the father of two children, a boy at Swarthmore, and a girl in high school, has settled contentedly in Amherst. Although his teaching duties require him to remain in Cambridge during most of the week, he returns home each weekend, because, as he explains, after living on the banks of four rivers, the Charles, the Potomac, the Mississippi, and the Connecticut, he has concluded with characteristic Yankee provincialism that he likes living near the Connecticut River the best "because it divides the United States into two parts, the East and the West...
...most important possibility is that it would allow teachers to work all year round. By using their skills full-time, teachers could probably earn more than one-third more pay, since administrative cost would not increase proportionally. In a school with initially high salaries like Exeter, the increase would make them competitive with industry, and in other schools, salaries might at least rise above the subsistence level...
...high salaries now available at Exeter actually constitute a difficulty, for many of the older teachers are already well enough paid so that they would be very reluctant to start teaching full-time. The long summer vacation is one of the natural disadvantages of teaching, but it is also one of the great appeals...
Statistically speaking the number is not abnormally high for a research library, but most of the books were either irreplaceable first editions or are now out of print, Mostecky explained...