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...Verba says it was partly a loyalty to Harvard, formed during his undergraduate years, that brought him back to Cambridge. He returned after getting his Ph.D. at Princeton University and teaching there, at Stanford University and at the University of Chicago...
...Verba grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended James Madison High School. Senior year he decided to attend Harvard over Princeton, a choice he in retrospect calls “the smartest thing I ever...
...gone to Princeton as a naive, more-than-slightly awkward Jewish kid from Brooklyn, it would have been a disaster,” Verba says...
According to his high school classmate Jerome I. Levinson ’53, the transition was difficult for Verba because they were part of the first wave of Jewish students and public-school students to enter Harvard. No more than two students in any year had ever matriculated to Harvard from James Madison until four did in 1949, Levinson says...
...Verba] has always felt a deep debt to Harvard for taking this kid out of New York and making him what he is today,” Shepsle says...