Archive for October 2013
Skeptical Biographer
One of the great reasons to live where we do is the Phillips Exeter Academy Library. I can WALK to the library, indeed when I walk our dog Sunny, we generally walk to the library and back, just to enjoy the view from there of the Academy Building. I have been known to tie Sunny…
Read MoreMock Trial Defended
In September my mock trial team put on a short mock trial for assembly for the whole school. One of the Exeter students, not on the team, did not much like what he saw, and he posted a long critique on his facebook page. As is the way of these things, other people saw the…
Read MoreTwenty Clerks
Those of you have read my review of the recent Wilson biography XX know that I have strong views on footnotes. Every historian, I believe, owes footnotes to future historians. It is only through good footnotes that one historian can retrace the steps of a prior historian, confirm whether the work is accurate, assess whether…
Read MoreHarvard Mock Trial
This past weekend I took about twenty Exeter kids to Harvard for a mock trial training weekend. The weekend has two main components: lectures by the Harvard students, in which they explain some of the basics of mock trial, and a scrimmage among the various high school students, in which they get a chance to…
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