At the end of the fall semester my wife and I went out to our favorite restaurant, where we found ourselves in a polite scrum with a man and his teenage son for the one seat available at the crowded bar. Although they probably had arrived at the seat just before us, the man generously ceded it to my wife, and we struck up a conversation.
It turned out that they were visiting from Florida, and were in New England for a tour of a nearby university, a larger and more research-oriented institution than the liberal-arts college where I teach. Since I direct the honors program at my college, I told them about it and encouraged the son to consider applying. The father and son both seemed interested, so I gave them my business card, and then a table opened up for them and we parted company.
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Author: James M. Lang
