In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954

Isaac Asimov

10 Junior High School

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I remember only two things about it. First, the glee club sang “Gaudeamus Igitur,” which included the line “Glorious youth is with us.” I was at once overwhelmed with a sharp and sorrowful pang at the thought that I was graduating, that I was twelve years old, and that youth was slipping fast away.