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he did. he always used to say, he was a high school dropout and when he was first hired as a professor in stony brook university he teased the president that she couldn t really be hiring a high school dropout but we always felt that really he had a tutorial education with his parents, world leading anthropologists and world leading archaeologists, leading geologists and other environmental scientist so richard from the age of three or four was really subjected to the kind of tutorial education that some students still get to enjoy at oxford and cambridge, so i think that by the time he was 16 or 17 he d had a world class education, it was just done by doing a science rather than by learning about science. lawrence, can i ask you, this is a very difficult question, maybe not a fair one, what was his greatest contribution, do you think in terms of his achievements? because they cover so many fields. yeah, i don t think you can say there s one. i think his service as the first director o
sides. but my understanding is it s been 13 years since the pirates lost. as one hampton alum on my staff put it, the last time howard beat hampton, the fujis were still together. let me also say a word about president harvey, a man who bleeds hampton blue. in a single generation, hampton has transformed from a small black college into a world-class research institution. and that transformation has come through the efforts of many people, but it has come through president harvey s efforts in