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　　Yeah， cause I think I had a class with
　　you.
　　
　　At this point， several interested parties materialize. Morgan
　　Billy and Will try， as inconspicuously as possible， to situate
　　themselves within listening distance. A rather large student
　　in a HARVARD LACROSSE sweatshirt， CLARK （22） notices Chuckie.
　　He [Clark] walks over to Skylar and Lydia， nobly hovering over them as
　　protector. This gets Will， Morgan， and Billy’’s attention.
　　
　　SKYLAR
　　What class？
　　
　　CHUCKIE
　　Ah， history I think.
　　
　　SKYLAR
　　Oh……
　　
　　CHUCKIE
　　Yah， it’’s not a bad school……
　　
　　At this point， Clark can’’t resist and steps in.
　　
　　CLARK
　　What class did you say that was？
　　
　　CHUCKIE
　　History.
　　
　　CLARK
　　How’’d you like that course？
　　
　　CHUCKIE
　　Good， it was all right.
　　
　　CLARK
　　History？ Just "history？" It must
　　have been a survey course then.
　　
　　Chuckie nods. Clark notices Chuckie’’s clothes. Will and Billy
　　exchange a look and move subtly closer.
　　
　　CLARK （cont’’d）
　　Pretty broad. "History of the World？"
　　
　　CHUCKIE
　　Hey， come on pal we’’re in classes all
　　day. That’’s one thing about Harvard never
　　seizes to amaze me， everybody’’s talkin’’
　　about school all the time.
　　
　　CLARK
　　Hey， I’’m the last guy to want to talk
　　about school at the bar. But as long
　　as you’’re here I want to "seize" the
　　opportunity to ask you a question.
　　
　　Billy shifts his beer into his left hand. Will and Morgan see
　　this. Morgan rolls his eyes as if to say "not again……"
　　
　　CLARK （cont’’d）
　　Oh， I’’m sure you covered it in your
　　history class.
　　
　　Clark looks to see if the girls are impressed. They are not.
　　When Clark looks back to Chuckie， Skylar turns to Lydia and
　　rolls her [own] eyes. They laugh. Will sees this and smiles.
　　
　　CHUCKIE
　　To tell you the truth， I wasn’’t there
　　much. The class was rather elementary.
　　
　　CLARK
　　Elementary？ Oh， I don’’t doubt that it
　　was. I remember the class， it was
　　just between recess and lunch.
　　
　　Will and Billy come forward， stand behind Chuckie.
　　
　　CHUCKIE
　　All right， are we gonna have a problem？
　　
　　CLARK
　　There’’s no problem. I was just hoping
　　you could give me some insight into
　　the evolution of the market economy in
　　the early colonies. My contention is
　　that prior to the Revolutionary War
　　the economic modalities especially of
　　the southern colonies could most aptly
　　be characterized as agrarian pre-
　　capitalist and……
　　
　　Will， who at this point has migrated to Chuckie’’s side and is
　　completely fed-up， includes himself in the conversation.
　　
　　WILL
　　Of course that’’s your contention.
　　You’’re a first year grad student.
　　You just finished some Marxian
　　historian， Pete Garrison prob’’ly， and
　　so naturally that’’s what you believe
　　until next month when you get to James
　　Lemon and get convinced that Virginia
　　and Pennsylvania were strongly
　　entrepreneurial and capitalist back in
　　1740. That’’ll last until sometime in
　　your second year， then you’’ll be in
　　here regurgitating Gordon Wood about
　　the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the
　　capital-forming effects of military
　　mobilization.
　　
　　CLARK
　　（taken aback）
　　Well， as a matter of fact， I won’’t，
　　because Wood drastically underestimates
　　the impact of--