Top Highlights

• In the high schools and colleges of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York, the sons of the world’s oldest surviving empire and the sons of an ascendant young republic met, played games, and exchanged ideas.
• Yale, which had originally been founded by Harvard graduates seeking to create a more theologically austere academic environment than the one they had found in Massachusetts,
• To meet that destiny, one needed cunning, speed, and bravery, qualities more evident on the playing field than in the lecture hall.
• were unlike anything his countrymen back home would have associated with schools and study, and Yung tried to make sense of the unfolding scene.
• Yung’s queue, the braid that all Chinese subjects were required to grow as a demonstration of loyalty to their emperor,