Archive for June 2012
Post Partum
I am in our northern Virginia home, sorting and packing books, and dipping into books from time to time, this morning. The introduction to the one-volume abridgement of Douglas Southall Freeman’s four-volume life of Robert E. Lee has a wonderful little story. After sending off the last pages of his manuscript to the publisher, Freeman…
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We are now in our last few days of school here at Exeter: tomorrow most of the students other than the seniors will depart; graduation is Sunday; I am leaving for Virginia early Tuesday. Yesterday I had the privilege of sitting in my wife’s math class as the students presented their projects. This was multivariable…
Read MoreExeter Excellence
It is an amazing time of year here at Phillips Exeter, not only because it is finally warm and sunny, but because of the end-of-year displays of student excellence. I have been privileged, over the past week, to see excellence from many students in many forms. Evan Soltas, the most brilliant 18-year-old economist in America,…
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