Robert Moses toured European museums with scholarly intensity atypical of Yale undergraduates

Evidence

Many college men spent their summers in Europe in the halcyon days before the Great War, but most of them spent their eight weeks abroad in the lobbies of the fashionable hotels of Paris, Rome and Geneva, striking up conversations, under the indulgent eyes of chaperons, with young ladies making their Grand Tours. Moses, the friend reported on their return to Yale, bounded out of bed early in the morning to be at museums when they opened, and he stayed in the museums all day. In Venice, which became his favorite European city, he spent hours in front of the famous Giotto frescoes and Michelangelo statues—and more hours searching out frescoes and statues that his companion had never heard of but about which Moses, in those long nights behind the closed door, had learned every detail. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 176

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Broader Connections

• Robert Moses was an idealistic scholar, not a grade-driven student, at Yale #corroborates (0.85) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 175