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David Andrew Lupher – 50th Reunion Essay

ByDavid Lupher

David Andrew Lupher 721 S. Palouse St. Walla Walla, WA 99362 dlupher@pugetsound.edu College: Morse After graduating from Yale and flunking my army physical, I became a graduate student in classics at Stanford, which proved a pleasant resort for recovering from being a classics major in one of the most dysfunctional classics departments in US academic history. Unlike Yale’s, Stanford’s classics department encouraged a fluid boundary between literary and historical studies, and that suited me perfectly….

29-29:  A Confession and a Question

29-29:  A Confession and a Question

ByDavid Lupher

Now that we are about to move past the semicentennial of the Yale-Harvard game of 1968, maybe it is safe for me to emerge from the shadows and make a confession and pose a question. First, the confession. Like many of my classmates, I journeyed from New Haven to Cambridge on November 23, 1968.  But while my car-mates were on their way to watch the game, I was not.  The first semester of my freshman…