Prof. Thomas G. Bergin

Thomas G. Bergin, Yale University, for his career as translator, scholar, and teacher of contemporary and classical Italian literature

- Prof. Thomas G. Bergin, Yale University, 'Space Prober.' This was the first poem to be launched into orbit about the Earth.

Alexandra Robbins, author of a book about Skull and Bones, quotes Italian scholar and Yale professor Thomas Bergin, who wrote in 1982 that while no one "seemed in a hurry" at Cornell, Yale was always in high gear.
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Alexandra Robbins, author of a book about Skull and Bones, quotes Italian scholar and Yale professor Thomas Bergin, who wrote in 1982 that while no one "seemed in a hurry" at Cornell, Yale was always in high gear.
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Alexandra Robbins, author of a book about Skull and Bones, quotes Italian scholar and Yale professor Thomas Bergin, who wrote in 1982 that while no one "seemed in a hurry" at Cornell, Yale was always in high gear.
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Alexandra Robbins, author of a book about Skull and Bones, quotes Italian scholar and Yale professor Thomas Bergin, who wrote in 1982 that while no one "seemed in a hurry" at Cornell, Yale was always in high gear.

64 Thomas G. Bergin, Yale’s Residential Colleges, The First 50 Years (New Haven: Yale Univ., 1983).

The best book about Ivy League football was written by Thomas Bergin , a professor of Renaissance literature at Yale.Its title is The Game.Of course , the game can refer to nothing else but The Harvard-Yale Football Rivalry , 1875-1983 , which is also the book's subtitle.

Harvard's Soldiers Field is still there , and so is the great Yale Bowl , but Princeton's Palmer Stadium is gone.It opened in 1914.The headline in the New York Times read Princeton Humbled by Dartmouth..

- Prof. Thomas G. Bergin, Yale University (From a poem titled "Space Prober."This was the first poem to be launched into orbit about the Earth.It was inscribed on the instrument panel of a satellite called Traac launched from Cape Kennedy on November 15, 1961.The Traac satellite is expected to orbit the Earth 800 years at an altitude of about 600 miles.)

- Prof. Thomas G. Bergin, Yale University (From a poem titled "Space Prober."

With Thomas G. Bergin, he is the translator of Vico's New Science and Autobiography.Back To Top

The best book about Ivy League football was written by Thomas Bergin, a professor of Renaissance literature at Yale.Its title is The Game.Of course, "the game" can refer to nothing else but "The Harvard-Yale Football Rivalry, 1875-1983," which is also the book's subtitle.

Harvard's Soldiers Field is still there, and so is the great Yale Bowl, but Princeton's Palmer Stadium is gone.It opened in 1914.The headline in the New York Times read "Princeton Humbled by Dartmouth."

- Prof. Thomas G. Bergin, Yale University, 'Space Prober.' This was the first poem to be launched into orbit about the Earth.It was inscribed on the instrument panel of a satellite called Traac launched from Cape Kennedy on November 15, 1961.

The Eagle and the Hawk

I am the eagle, I live in high country,In rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky,