ILLUSTRATION: GEORGE BATES; PHOTO: RICARDO BARROS


ILLUSTRATION: GEORGE BATES; PHOTO: RICARDO BARROS

What books made an impression on you as an undergraduate? That was the question posed to PAW readers in the Jan. 18 issue. Among the responses:

NORTON JACOBI ’55 picked The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand: “The impact was not to convert me to the radical individualism of Ms. Rand — but rather to open my mind to the existence of the world of socioeconomic and political issues and the deep philosophical questions they raised.”

ARTHUR KEVIN BERRY ’78 *83, said acquiring several Charles Dickens novels at his first book fair “sparked a voracious and insatiable desire to read which has stayed with me until this day.”

Lawrence Stone’s writings on British history “were eye-opening in terms of social history,” wrote JULIA DE PEYSTER ’86. “However, I don’t think I had really thought about academic controversy till he described an onstage debate with Hugh Trevor-Roper that ended in fisticuffs. That made an impression.”