Author:  Erik Larson
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I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word," Burnham said.
Larson wrote, "The same happened at Yale. Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.

( Erik Larson )
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