Head & Shoulders

In 1915 Horace Tarbox was thirteen years old. In that year he took the examinations for entrance to Prince-ton University and received the Grade A-excellent-in Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, Xenophon, Homer, Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry, and Chemistry. Two years later while George M. Cohan was composing &quote;Over There,&quote; Horace was leading the sophomore class by several lengths and digging out theses on &quote;The Syllogism as an Obsolete Scholastic Form,&quote; and during the battle of Chteau-Thierry he was sitting at his desk deciding whether or not to wait until his seventeenth birthday before beginning his series of essays on &quote;The Pragmatic Bias of the New Realists.&quote;After a while some newsboy told him that the war was over, and he was glad, because it meant that Peat Brothers, publishers, would get out their new edition of &quote;Spinoza's Improvement of the Understanding.&quote; Wars were all very well in their way, made young men self-reliant or something but Horace felt that he could never forgive the President for allowing a brass band to play under his window the night of the false armistice, causing him to leave three important sentences out of his thesis on &quote;German Idealism.&quote;