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The Road to Somewhere
Take a minute, and think about the venerable 1980s situation comedy "Cheers" and the opening line to its theme song: "Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got."
Henry Adams did not live to see "Cheers" or television's invention, but it is possible to say his life had a parallel coda to those lyrics. Adams was not different from many high-society New Englanders in the 19th century. Adams was an American aristocrat, the grandson and great-grandson of U.S. Presidents, and attended Harvard College. Adams, however, discusses his time at Harvard with contempt and rancor for the most part. Adams, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography "The Education of Henry Adams" said that Harvard "taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile" (Adams 32). Adams and his classmates in the Class of 1958 did not take school seriously and Harvard was simply a social collective, populated by......

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