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...assigned works was 5 to 6 hours weekly. Most popular among the books were "The Brothers Karamazov," "The Red and the Black," "The Republic," and the plays of Sophocles, Shaw, and Shakespeare. On the other hand, '55 little enjoyed the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, while many disliked Pascal and Nietzsche. Generally students leaned towards the drama and the novel and, occasionally, toward philosophy, in their likes...
...constitutions." He becomes engaged to Virgilia, a girl with a "mouth fresh as dawn and insatiable as death," but she jilts him for a politician. He survives the experience, and uses it to sharpen the Braz Cubas philosophy of life, also known as the Theory of Human Editions: "Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that, in turn, will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates...
John B. Rehm '52 won both $100 undergraduate Bowdoin prizes in the Classics field for his translations into Latin and Attic Greek. Milman G. Parry 2G won $200 for a Greek essay, while Cecil B. Pascal 2G received Honorable Mention. Kenneth J. Reckford '54 won the John Osborne Sargent prize of $200, while Roland F. Perkins '52 won a $100 prize for excellence in Latin, to complete awards in the Classics field...
While most of the town's parents are happy about this new interest in studying, a small, powerful faction on the town council objects to Pascal's demands for adequate school facilities. This faction is led by an antique dealer who was trying to buy a valuable antique chair from an old lady when one of the students who had been studying the town's history recognized the chair's historic worth, and told the owner not to sell...
...council decides to fire Pascal unless the whole senior class passes the government examination for a graduation certificate. As an added obstacle, they insist that Albert, a boy whom they consider the village loafer, also pass. Actually, association with Pascal has made a new boy of Albert, and he passes with the rest after making a Tom Paine-type speech eulogizing Pascal and freedom...