“Quiz kids of Senior Class announced today. Jack Daniels, Valedictorian; Mary Lou Shaw, Salutatorian; Irvin Nachman, Third Honor Student; Boots Cumming, Highest Average, and Janet Davis, Second Highest”
“It aint oftin that you’s git a more better group of genii as was collected this year at good old Melrose High. To the credit of they, it can be said them didn’t do nothin’.”
“As Hutchinson saw it, his role was always “that of a student trying to learn quietly and unobtrusively from this extraordinary group of genii. G.B. and M.M. [Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead] were of”