I Am A Historian. With The Exception

I Really Believe That What Happens One Day Affects The Next, And I Think That Came From That Experience Of Learning That If I Told The Score Inning By Inning, Play By Play, It Built Up To Its Natural Climax.

While Its [harvard's] Undergraduate Life Was Still Controlled [in 1908-1912] By A Select Group Of Rich And Fashionable Families Whose Sons Merely Arrived When They Were Due To Fill The Places That Had Been Waiting For Them From The Day They Were Born, It Was, At The Same Time, Opening Its Doors To A More Cosmopolitan Student Population And Beginning To Take The First Tentative Steps Toward Mitigating The Evils Of A Pyramidal Social System That Concentrated All Its Social Honors Upon The Rich And The Wellborn.

I Think The Most Important Advice Is, A Person Doesn't Have To Find Out Right Away. It's Not Like Their First Attempt At Finding A Profession Is The Only One They're Going To Find. I Might Well Have Gone Down Other Paths, And It Still Might Have Been Okay. But If You Find Something That You Love, And If It Keeps Deepening With Each New Experience, Then Just Stay With It.

I Keep Thinking That History Runs In Cycles, And That Some Day Certain Large Issues Will Come Before The Country Again. There Will Be Leaders That Inspire Young People. I Don't Think It Means That It's Over Forever, But I'm Getting Pretty Impatient. I'm Hoping It Comes Soon, So That My Young People Can Know That Experience That We Knew In The '60s, And That The World War Ii Generation Knew During The '40s.

Washington Was A Typical American. Napoleon Was A Typical Frenchman, But Lincoln Was A Humanitarian As Broad As The World. He Was Bigger Than His Country - Bigger Than All The Presidents Together. We Are Still Too Near To His Greatness,' (leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) Concluded, 'but After A Few Centuries More Our Posterity Will Find Him Considerably Bigger Than We Do. His Genius Is Still Too Strong And Powerful For The Common Understanding, Just As The Sun Is Too Hot When Its Light Beams Directly On Us.' (748)