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Barbarians at the Gate: Cushing Academy edition

October 3, 2009 - 8:05 am - by Roger Kimball
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2009-10-03 19:02:13

I believe every generation should have access to books that were old when their grandfathers we young. As a teenager in the 1970′s I was browsing my high schools book collection when I came across a book on the British Navy published in Britian before WWI. In the back of the book I read that the luisitainia was listed as an Auxillary Cruiser in the Royal Navy. Just a few short months later Life magazine had a cover story on the sinking of the ocean liner by a German submarine. That book gave me perspective on the Life article that the other students didn’t have. Given the way data on the internet is edited, will the students of tomorrow be able to know anything? Or will have have to keep waiting for the latest revision of events by the internet “experts”.