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Fifty years later, John Knowles '45 reflects on his Exeter experience
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"This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are...shrunken by age...(for) the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way." 
(Chapter 1)
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