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March 14, 2018

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Remember John Boswell, one of the most singular scholars of our time

John Eastburn Boswell (1947-1994) Educator, Scholar, Author One measure of the catastrophic swath AIDS cut through two generations of Americans is to consider, for a moment, what John Boswell accomplished in 47 years. He died on Christmas Eve, 1994. Jeb- as his friends initialized him, was a golden boy, literally and intellectually. He was a polyglot and a polymath into whose classes students fought to get, and who, in 1986, voted Boswell the sexiest man at Yale. One recollection summarizes his life nicely: Born in 1947 to a military family, Jeb spent his childhood in Boston, Mass. as an Episcopalian. By the time he finished his undergraduate degree at The College of William and Mary in 1969 in Virginia, Jeb had converted to Roman Catholicism, to which he remained a devoted follower for the rest of his life. After college, Jeb pursued his doctorate in history at Harvard University in Cambridge. A talented scholar, Jeb utilized his knowledge o

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