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The 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ of the East

I am pleased by and grateful for the letter from Roger Andriola ’69 [Letters, June 2012], and I want to thank him for taking the time and trouble to write it. To learn that one has influenced a student intellectually in a way that he experienced as a life landmark is the greatest gift a teacher can be given. Your readers may be interested to know that the story has yet one more 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ connection. When I was interviewed at 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ by the Yale law professor whose interviewing trip I emulated seven years later, I expressed doubts about whether a legal education would be sufficiently intellectually challenging (as opposed to arduous) for a 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ philosophy major with no interest in actually practicing law. He replied that Yale was different from the others. “At Yale, we like to think of ourselves as the 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ of law schools,” he assured me. So I went there, and, as I compared notes with friends at Harvard and elsewhere, discovered that it was. I suppose one could say that it was a 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ orientation that my Yale-educated colleagues and I offered to the 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ-educated Mr. Andriola, obviously to very good effect.

—Michael E. Levine ’62

Woodbridge, Connecticut