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So he was determined to educate himself, and he started buying books during
the boom years of the late '20s. He made a lot of money in the first few years
selling radios. He was selling radios at the time when the salesman just sat
there in the showroom and wrote the orders as fast as he could write them.
This, you remember, was in
So he made a lot of money, and that's when he bought the Harvard Classics
and a lot of other good books. He bought good books, like the Merezhkowski
trilogy-H. G. Wells' Outline
Philosophy by Will
and
Durant. All these are just a few of the books I remember, much more than my
family's books, but there were several bookcases full of older books.
It always seemed that reading was the way to go, I think, in our family.
Let's talk about Johns Hopkins.
Well, okay. I think I told you about absolving French reading and English
composition and having a wonderful English literature course. But still, I was
taking engineering and so the first year I took engineering drawing and
surveying and mathematics, physics, and chemistry, which are the basic
courses for going into engineering-the only engineering, in the first year,
being surveying and engineering drawing.
And the swimming team was one interest. Then I started up a freshman golf
team just so I wouldn't have to take physical education. We played mostly high
school teams like Friends' School and Tome, up in Port Deposit, and other
prep schools. I'm not sure any of the colleges had golf teams, at least I don't
remember playing any college freshman golf team. I was not all that good at
golf. If I ever got an
I thought I was really doing well, and I think maybe
the best round I ever shot in those days was an or so.
Were there any particular professors at Hopkins that gave you inspiration.
Well, only Captain Kilbourne- i n the freshman year that is. The next year my
calculus teacher, Dr. Zariski really turned me on. At one time I considered
changing my course, from engineering to mathematics.
Okay.
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