Abstract
One of the facts of college life which often escapes the attention of outsiders is the pervasiveness of academic conformity. Everyone knows that students look alike. Choose any college and compare its 1955 yearbook with the yearbook for 1969. You will find that the pictures from 1955 show students in short haircuts wearing jackets and ties or sweaters and pearls. In 1969, both the men and the women have hair down to here and wear torn jeans and faded shirts ornamented with feathers and beads. The 1955 students will be so dissimilar from the 1969 students as to have come from different worlds. But the students in 1955 all will look alike as did the students in 1969. On any campus, at any given time the students are, from ten feet away, as identical as snowflakes.
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King, J.P. (1992). Aristocracy. In: The Art of Mathematics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6339-0_7
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