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...Frankly, I was more ready to go to school [after the war] than when I was right out of prep school," says Kenneth P. MacPherson '46-'48. "I had a better appreciation of what college can do for me. As a freshman, all I had to look forward to was being drafted...
Harvard before the war was largely an institution of social clubs and prep schools...
...Harvard at which we initially arrived is all but forgotten now, with its de facto segregation by gender, class and (to the extent there was minority representation) race. As a graduate of a middle-class public high school, I was assigned demographically similar roommates in the Yard; the wealthier prep school boys also kept to themselves, on their way to the final clubs the rest of us never entered...
...author rarely pushes beyond the most obvious implications of his overflowing subject matter. Still, this is a book of many pleasures, not the least of which is the credibly fraught bond between its two protagonists: Patrick Keane, a scholarship student at a New England prep school, and his roommate, the Afrophilic son of a rich and corrupt white Southern family, the Savages (hence the unfortunate title...
...Delaware. That was just the kind of reach-out-and-touch gesture Brown would have made. It was a skill he learned to develop early on. A son of New York City's black aristocracy, his first and perhaps most important lessons were imparted not by the wealthy prep schools he would attend as a teenager but by the human parade passing through his home, Harlem's Hotel Theresa, which his father managed. In its day, the Theresa served as a Mecca for famous black entertainers, sports heroes and, of course, politicians. Brown was on hair-mussing terms with...