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ROLE ON CAMPUS
Gadfly Who Served Donuts

Tidbits for Inquiring Minds

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You know when you’re young particularly you don’t think behind the wall of the teacher’s face too much. I think he, in some respects with the Snack Bar conversations and being in a house, exposed himself more than most teachers. But I’m not sure that he exposed more of himself. I think I remember, didn’t […]

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Tweed. He had kind of a tweed coat that he wore. This could be a complete fabrication–I seem to recall he wore hush puppies.

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I was startled one day to learn that one of his favorite songs was “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.” I thought, you know, Bob Dylan, wow, that’s impossible.

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He was on the faculty bowling team. There was a bowling alley in the basement, reputed to be in the basement of the Faculty Club and he was on the bowling team with a man much involved in Williams life over the past half century, [bookstore owner] Ralph Renzi, who sometimes suffered the slights of […]

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He always deflected questions about himself. I did drive with him on some stretch. “Well, what about you? What was your life like?” I know other kids, students, tried to do that too. But again he never wanted to divulge a whole lot. He would talk about his ideas, intellectually, for sure. But you know […]

CHAPTERS

Introduction
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4
5
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8
Final Note

Chapter 4: ROLE ON CAMPUS

  • 3. But Respect For the Rules
  • 4. Distance, Yes, But . . . “I Really Did”
  • 15. A Very Off-Broadway Play
  • 5. Classroom That Sold Hot-Cross Buns
  • 16. Uncle Bob
  • 6. Eats for the Barefoot Guests
  • 7. The Guru Issue Won’t Fade
  • 8. Alas, It’s No Way To Pick Up Girls
  • 9. “What To Do?” As More Than Words
  • 10. Black Students Take The Administration Building, Then a Meeting At His House
  • 11. A Colleague in the Arena
  • 12. Faculty Relations
  • 13. Tidbits for Inquiring Minds
  • 14. War, Riots, and Other Teachable Moments
  • 1. Prankster and Trail Guide, “Follow the Elephant”
  • 2. The Gadfly Who Asked, “If You Don’t Go, Who Will?”
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