He never intended to be a dean; he wanted to be a poet. As a student at the University of Michigan, Christian Gauss (rhymes with mouse) was a prominent athlete and Phi Beta Kappa scholar, dressed in velveteen jacket and flowing tie รก la Gilbert's Bunthorne. He worked his way through college in three years, could recite the Inferno from start to finish in Italian by the time he graduated. He sailed off to Paris, to the Latin Quarter and versifying. Michigan lured him back with the offer of a teaching job, made more attractive by the fact that the...
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