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...Wishful thinking gets the process going, but by the end it has no place. No 21st century reader needs reminding that zealous belief in unseen or partial evidence can have disastrous results. A thesis may begin with Paul??s version of belief, but it is developed only with a commitment to a process akin to the scientific method. You try out a hypothesis, have the guts to follow it through, and then evenly assess what you have. Crises of belief—“what if I am wrong?”—do threaten...
...many enthusiasts who join on a weekly basis.There is no practice, no warm up, and no pressure to do well. The students just have fun, and play whatever they want.Last Sunday, I had the opportunity to join the Klappermeisters in their weekly ritual.After waiting for the bells of St. Paul??s to begin ringing, the 15-minute concerto commenced. Students and observers ran up to the taut ropes that controlled the bells in no particular order, receiving applause and support during and after their performances.Some people donned earplugs, while others roughed it while the gigantic bell known...
...schools, reports the Los Angeles Times. But it wasn’t just the precursor to a greater rivalry; amazingly, the Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. race was the first intercollegiate sporting competition in the United States. The oars came into the possession of the Marino family in 1981, when Paul??s father discovered them while cleaning out the basement of a building in Medford he had recently purchased. “Soon after the discovery of the trophy oars, my father, my sister Connie and I all went to the Harvard and Yale library archives and learned of their...
Rossi had received a dragon book identical to one our historian later finds in Paul??s library. When a colleague and close friend dies from a suspicious neck wound, Rossi defects for Cambridge, Mass. Kostova, a Yale graduate, has her characters using all sorts of amusing circumlocutions—the “excellent university,” the university of the “distinguished American scholar”—to describe our fine institution, Rossi’s chosen haven...
...course, by the time Rossi is advising Paul??s dissertation in the 1950s, even Harvard Yard—the haunt of graduate students identifiable by their “barely veiled fatigue” and guileless undergraduates “attending some kind of study group, comparing notes sotto voce”—has become unsafe for Rossi...