<p>Mini: Richard Feynman quoted the same sentence from Gibbon in the introduction to his world famous "Lectures on Physics "to explain why his freshmen at Caltech did so abysmally on the exam based on the lectures. Not smoked at enough I shouldn’t wonder, although the series itself is still the most fascinating introduction to Physics I know about. </p>
<p>Question. For someone basically interested in church music, from Palestrina, Byrd to Bach, would there be anything at Williams? In Princeton there would be at least Westminster Choir College and perhaps Trinity Church but is there even a sacred space to sing at Williams and more importantly a group likely to share this spirituality without which of course there is no music–c’est le ton qui fait la musique and all that. Daughters chief aim in life seems to be to become a mathematics don and precentor at Christ Church. Too much Alice in Wonderland and Anglican hymnody I suppose.</p>