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Luce and Hadden, classmates out of Hotchkiss and Yale, succeeded because they understood this truth: history may be complicated, as life is complicated, but the business of storytelling is simple. The young men said in their prospectus that their creation would be judged by "how much it gets off its pages into the minds of its readers." Sort the world into stories and carry them (facts, personalities, ideas, images, dramas, quirks, gossip, the details and energy of life) from Out There, where things happen, to In Here, inside the reader's consciousness, where stories turn into wonder, entertainment, cautionary experience...
Luce spent the next seven years ensconced in all-male, all-white, overwhelmingly Protestant institutions of the American upper class: first Hotchkiss, then Yale (where he joined that bastion of the Establishment, Skull and Bones). Luce was active in student journalism in both schools--and in the process formed an intimate relationship with Briton Hadden, the classmate, friend and frequent rival with whom he would found TIME. Having encountered America first as an abstraction, Luce encountered it after 1913 as a member of a self-proclaimed enlightened elite, among boys and young men trained from an early age to think...
Naima R. Lilly '01 and Karen R. Edey '01 bothhail from New York City but attended Hotchkiss, aprivate boarding school in Lakeville, Conn. Intheir graduating class, the two estimate that onlyabout 30 out of 550 students were black...
...Edey and Lilly, fellow black studentsat Hotchkiss had such a strong sense of communityand activism that neither woman feels particularlycompelled to explore their racial identity throughblack organizations at the College...
Edey explains that the Black And HispanicStudents Association at Hotchkiss performed manyof the same functions that the BSA does atHarvard. She and Lilly both agree that after fouryears of intense and thorough discussions on racein high school they have extensively exploredtheir ethnic heritage...