1.   A classics scholar and former newspaper reporter for The Daily Item in Port Chester, N.Y., Manzi has eclectic and wide-ranging interests.

2.   He performed brilliantly as a classics scholar at Oxford, winning the highest possible honors.

3.   Indeed, he flirted with the idea of becoming a classics scholar before taking up engineering.

4.   Maurer had a lifelong interest in Latin and Greek and intended to become a classics scholar.

5.   A classics scholar married to another Ph.D., Begley wanted to raise her three sons to appreciate a culture more complex than the one being presented on the tube.