[catonsville]

"I wasn't able to graduate from Brooklyn College without reading from the works of Shakespeare, Dickinson, Keats, Thucydides, Euripides, and a host of classic American"

Me too. When I graduated Brooklyn College years ago, we also were required to read Goethe and Moliere-- in the original German and French.

I am very grateful for that classical education and still have many books from the college courses.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Well, I'm not sure about the exact figure, but I think that it used to be a G.P.A. around 90 or 92-this according to someone who graduated in the mid-50s-which gained you entrance to BC.

Anyway, my academic experience there was certainly useful, if not career-wise, then at least in broader intellectual terms.

I think the preparation I got by doing college level work at Murrow also helped me to acclimate well to the college environment. I remember having a high school English teacher who was one of only a half dozen or so experts on Nathaniel Hawthorne.