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Overview
Benjamin A. Elman is a historian of Chinese intellectual and cultural history who later became a professor at Princeton University. He attended Hamilton College and was a member of the class of 1968, where he concentrated in philosophy.
Relevance to Research
Elman is mentioned in a March 1968 Spectator article reporting that four Hamilton seniors received honorable mentions in the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship competition for 1968–69. He is identified as a philosophy major. The article focuses primarily on Wason Bosler ‘68, who won a full fellowship.
Notes
The source mention is brief — a single line listing Elman among four honorable mention recipients. His subsequent academic career as a China historian is not referenced in the corpus.
Related Sources
- spec-1968-03-01_djvu.txt