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Kennedy spent his upperclass years as a resident of Winthrop House, which Hamilton wrote was then one of the less exclusive houses...
...Hamilton writes of Kennedy's being accepted, despite his Irish-Catholic descent, into the Spee Club, a Harvard final club, during his sophomore year...
Kennedy's schoolwork consequently suffered that year. Hamilton quotes a letter Kennedy wrote to a friend in January 1937: "Exam today so have to open my book and see what the fucking course is about...
...Hamilton wrote that Kennedy's Harvard friends, noting his humor and talent for writing, believed he would eventually become a journalist...
...What such friends could not easily see...was that Jack's refusal to be a `mere' journalist reflected his inherent determination to be a derring-doer, not simply an observer," Hamilton wrote...