{"id":541,"date":"2007-10-17T08:16:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=541"},"modified":"2007-10-17T08:16:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T12:16:32","slug":"alas-the-professors-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/alas-the-professors-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Alas the professor's kid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just back from a driving marathon to take our son to Hampshire College<\/a> for a College Day visit. Aside from a 2.5 hour wait to cross the Geo. Wash. Bridge northbound on Sunday, one brief lost moment in the Bronx (missed the southbound turn to the Geo. Wash. Bridge), and a lovely rear-ender when a small truck piled into us as we were trying to leave Hadley (no one was hurt, thank goodness), it was uneventful.<\/p>\n

Both Ian and I were impressed by Hampshire, for a number of reasons I would like to explore here at some point. We also both had some concerns, I more than he. Worth exploring those too, particularly because, so far as I can tell, Hampshire was founded on a very brave, far-seeing attempt at real school. The attempt continues, forty years later, and it was interesting to see some of the history of that attempt firsthand.<\/p>\n

Then we got home, and a brochure had come from Deep Springs College<\/a>–another of the brave real school attempts I’ve thought about over the years. I remember getting a version of that brochure when I was a senior. I had tried out for the Telluride Program<\/a> and failed. (I was a semi-finalist and got an interview with Robert Davidoff, a young asst. prof. of history at UVA; it was the first time I’d talked at length to a college professor–and thereby hangs another tale.) Still, Deep Springs was fascinating to me, for reasons I have trouble explaining, even to myself. The current brochure is even more interesting than the one I received thirty-three years ago.<\/p>\n

All of which brings me to today’s punch line, which has something to do with the pleasures and perils of growing up as a faculty kid. At least waggish Ian<\/a>, who\u00c2\u00a0wrote and posted\u00c2\u00a0this note on a door in our house,\u00c2\u00a0has still managed to get to the comic side of all these questions.<\/p>\n

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