I was raised in a Harvard family and was always told that Harvard was next thing to the gold standard in education. But I have also become CMC s Truman Scholarship representative, and I couldn t help but notice that CMC had more Truman Scholars last year from a class of 250 than Harvard got from a class of 900. On a per-capita basis, CMC has had more Truman Scholars than Harvard, indeed, more than anyone, for the last fifteen years. The same is probably true of Watson fellowships, though Harvard is still a step ahead of us in per-capita Rhodes and Marshall Scholars. But for the work of these high-impact CMC people, brought here by Stark, Benson, and taught by the many that they hired and inspired, the world would be a bleaker, lesser place.
Eras come, eras go.
Some are glorious, some terrifying, some humdrum. The Benson and Stark eras were anything but humdrum. For CMC they have been years of Promethean, world-bending creativity. Benson and Stark might have grudgingly acknowledged the first proposition, but the second never. CMC s finest hours, they told us, are yet to come.