Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only was Coolidge a summa cumlaude Harvard graduate in history, a scholar in international affairs, and a planner of Widener Library, but he was also a great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson...
...finest story, The Fault of M. Balzac, Maurois brings the full weight of irony crashing down on a brilliant but ambitious scholar. "A really distinguished mistress would spare me ten years of setbacks and sordid intrigue," says Lecadieu. He gets one, a politician's wife. He also gets caught. Exiled from Paris, forced to marry a worn-out woman, he ends up a wreck teaching Latin texts to schoolboys. He can't even remember what his ambition...
Varsity football; Detur; Kirkland House Committee, secretary; Pi Eta Club, Vice President; National Scholar; James Bryant Conant Award; PBH, Columbia Point; Senior Associate Program...
Leverett House social committee; varsity football; Harvard National Scholar; Pi Eta Club; Hasty Pudding; PBH Blood Drive...
Death at an Early Age is based on Kozol's eight-month service as a $20-a-day substitute teacher at the Christopher Gibson School in the mostly Negro Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. A summa cum laude Harvard graduate and former Rhodes Scholar, Kozol was badly shaken by the experience-which ended abruptly when he was fired after reading to his class a poem by Negro Langston Hughes that was not on the teachers' approved reading list; it suggested that tenement tenants might justifiably put the slug on their landlords...