Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The American Scholar

    Commonplace Book

    Dec 01, 2023 3 minutes

    O for a beaker full of the warm South …

    -John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale,” 1819

    On the Sunday in December 1941 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, a group of College Board officials happened to be having lunch together in Princeton … talking, as they often did, about how nice it would be to abolish the old College Board essay examinations and use the SAT for all applicants, not just scholarship students. In the middle of this the telephone rang with news of the raid. Within two weeks, the essay exams had been suspended

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The American Scholar

    The American Scholar6 min read
    Lunching With Rabi
    On October 28, 1964, when I was 26 years old and in my first semester as an instructor in Columbia University’s English Department, my father called and asked if I’d read an article in The New York Times that morning about I. I. Rabi. I had not. “Wel
    The American Scholar16 min read
    The Redoubtable Bull Shark
    JOHN GIFFORD is a writer and conservationist based in Oklahoma. His books include Red Dirt Country: Field Notes and Essays on Nature; Pecan America: Exploring a Cultural Icon; and the forthcoming Landscaping for Wildlife: Essays on Our Changing Plane
    The American Scholar4 min read
    We've Gone Mainstream
    Marie Arana’s sprawling portrait of Latinos in the United States is rich and nuanced in its depiction of the diversity of “the least understood minority.” Yet LatinoLand is regrettably old-fashioned and out-of-date. For starters, Hispanics aren’t rea

    Related Books & Audiobooks