Things turn topsy-turvy when a prodigy from Princeton falls for a spirited dancer in spite of himself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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And now, head and shoulders by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In 1915, Horace Tarbox was 13 years old. In that year, he took the examinations for entrance to Princeton University and received the grade A. Excellent. In Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Xenophon, Homer, algebra, plane geometry, solid geometry, and chemistry.

Two years later, while George M. Cohen was composing over there, Horace was leading the

sophomore class by several lengths and digging out theses on the syllogism as an obsolete

scholastic form, and during the Battle of Chateau-Tierry,

he was sitting at his desk deciding whether or not to wait until his 17th birthday before beginning

his series of essays on the pragmatic bias of the new realists. After a while some newsboy

told him that the war was over, and he was glad because it meant

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