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Some, like Rich, seemed to have contemplated Lionel's lessons over the years, and are still profiting from the Lionel legacy. He notes that Lionel was an often rigorous intellectual environment because of the constant diversity of viewpoints. "I had all kinds of checks and balances working on me. I had Larry saying one thing, Manny saying the opposite, and Jeff saying something totally different...
Others like Daniel, managed to incorporate some of the ideas that they heard in Lionel into their academics. He notes that his high school in Revere, Mass., did not even have a Democratic club, yet somehow, he ended up taking a term abroad in Columbia, and ultimately wrote his Social Studies thesis on that country. Daniel notes that without Larry and Lionel, Latin American issues "wouldn't have occurred to me," adding, "I still feel Larry's influence shaping my college career, not a direct influence, but something more subtle...
...course, it is still early to tell what Lionel's final legacy will be for the 18 freshmen who lived there. While two are going on to Harvard Law School in the fall, and two are going immediately on to medical school, there are many who are still wrestling with the same questions about their future that they struggled with while at Lionel...
Kathy speaks for a whole contingent of Lionel when she says. "I'm going to try to finish school, which may be difficult." While speaking vaguely of perhaps switching out of her current joint major of Applied Math and Biology into straight Biology, Kathy says, "Maybe someday I'll go to med school, maybe I'll drop out of school." Jeff speaks of returning in the fall after a two-and-a-half year absence, although he is not sure what he ultimately wants to do with his life. Daniel is going to work for the City of Baltimore...
...oddly enough, Kathy may have summed up the Lionel experience best when she said "I always thought of us as pretty typical. Looking past time off, past the inability to communicate and the near fist-fights, past the violent clash of cultures, it may just be that Lionel was somehow "typical"--like the rest of Harvard, only more so. If Harvard is about special people, leaders of their respective communities, people who refuse to follow the beaten path, then Lionel wrote the book on all of those qualities freshman year. If Harvard is about diversity, and people learning from people...