Twilight Zone

Among my Christmas gifts was a beautiful, somewhat antique desk with lots of drawers and cubby holes and a tall cabinet.  So I decided the shelves in the cabinet would be an appropriate place for some of our elderly books, especially Dad's many volumes of the Yale Shakespeare.  As I was putting them on the shelves, I noticed that several of them were edited by Robert French of Yale's English department.  It struck me that this same Robert French was once offered the position of Provost at Avon Old Farms.  He was working at Yale, was offered and tentatively accepted the position at Avon, then changed his mind and accepted a promotion at Yale.  As so many had, he cited the existence of the Aide to the Provost/Master of Detail in explaining his reluctance to come to Avon.  It is hardly surprising that something in our house would be connected in some way to the history of the school, but now I wonder if there is anything here that isn't.