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...future, Sibley resolved to write such a record. His project: to write a biographical sketch of every man who ever went to Harvard. Serenely oblivious to the Malthusian truth that Harvard men beget sons who go to Harvard, and that a long, geometric progression of begats had already outbegotten his best efforts to catch up. Historian Sibley set to work. He was confident, he wrote, that although his research might turn up "cases of iniquity which may have escaped punishment," it would nevertheless show the "worth and influence" of Harvard graduates...