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Thomas--who is currently instructing Whittington in Latin 112a, History of Classical Latin Literature--says, "He attends faithfully, except when the buses are leaving early for Cornell or something like that, and that's understandable...
...Whittington says Classics was a natural choice. "It's just something I did a lot of in high school. Gonzaga, as a Jesuit school, sort of concentrated on that...
Although academics here remained a very important part of Harvard for him, Whittington has structured his four years primarily around football. Entering with sophomore standing because he anticipated taking a semester off--but still playing four years of football--he trains hard both in and out of season...
About his semester off--which he spent in Cambridge working in the Widener microtext/government documents section--Whittington says, "I knew I was going to be here in the fall, definitely, for football. I would have been a fool not to come back in the fall, because, frankly, football has been the biggest and most satisfying thing here...
...never called a jock until I came to Harvard; but when I came here, just because I played football everyone called me a jock. And personally, I don't consider myself a jock at all," Whittington concludes...