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Their mother Nancy Walsh, a medical secretary, moved the family to Washington when Bill was 12 and entrusted him to the Jesuit fathers of Gonzaga High School, where he became the only honor student to start on the football team. Bennett accepted a scholarship to Williams College in Massachusetts, where he planned vaguely to study advertising. He played football, joined a fraternity and hauled furniture in the summers to meet expenses. But then, Bennett recalls, he enrolled in a philosophy course taught by a gifted professor, Laszlo Versenyi, and "fell in love with the stuff...
...sport that allowed him to depend on himself and train all alone. At this he was not a natural--he willed himself to become a top half-miler in the state. But still he played basketball, the team sport, because that was the route that might get him a scholarship to college, and from college maybe to med school, where he could train for a profession that would guarantee him security wherever he went...
Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine has publically committed to encouraging the innovative use of technology for scholarship. While he admits that Harvard is not likely to be the nation's leader in developing new technology, he has repeatedly said he hopes Harvard will be the driving force in finding academic applications for the technologies others develop...
...fact, Rudenstine dedicated his Commencement address this year to his vision for the impact the Internet will have on teaching, comparing its development to the creation of the large research libraries that have been the hallmark of University scholarship for the last century...
...emergence of the research library changed the face of scholarship and forced universities to address issues of information transmission, today the Internet presents similar challenges, Rudenstine said...