His father was a war-hero student at Yale, which his father, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, and several uncles and cousins had attended before him; when George H. W. Bush was tapped for Skull and Bones, a few months after George W. Bush was born, he was the fifth member of his family to receive that honor.
BARRON'S Inside a Boarding School for Aspiring Tech Moguls | At the Draper University of Heroes, students in their early to mid-20s looking to break into Silicon Valley apprentice at the feet of the venture capitalist Tim Draper, "trying to pick up the tech world's own brand of magical thinking," Kevin Roose writes in New York magazine.
The hero, the student, / the steeple-jack, each in his way, / is at home".
Glamorous Guevara, by far the more photogenic of the two, became a hero of student bedsits in the West partly because he died young on a Bolivian airfield.
Fiction, by a notable graphic designer, that feels autobiographical and sometimes acts like a manifesto on graphic design; its hero, a student at a big state university in 1957-58, hasself heroesroes: a bold, sexy, bohemian woman and a challenging, confrontational design professor.
You call that a hero?" The students laughed.
Trivers is a hero to students of evolutionary research.
Dostoyevsky's anti-hero, impoverished student Raskolnikov, justifies his murder of a pawnbroker by considering his victim a parasite.
"Well, her biography and everything that has been written about her has made her very popular – a hero – among students and young girls," he tells me.
Our heroes are student throwbacks, like the characters in that Frat Pack locus classicus Old School, partying dysfunctionally hard and aware that they are getting the weeniest bit old for this sort of thing.
It is painful to remember these histories, but like heroes, the students must go through a type of hell first before getting their win.
