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degree from Yale in 1920 seeking a suitable career. This experience influenced his mode of travel in later life which, if at all possible, was by train or boat-not by plane.įree of economic pressures, Enders spent seven years after receiving his B.A. First as an ensign and then as a lieutenant, he served as a flight instructor at Pensacola, Florida, for three years. After two years there he enlisted in the Naval Reserve and learned to pilot aircraft.

In 1915, at the age of eighteen, he entered Yale University with no definite academic objectives. In mathematics and physics I encountered difficulties which were surmounted in a most mediocre fashion only after great effort.' 1 Of the studies required, he wrote, 'I preferred in the main certain of the so-called humanities-Latin, French, German, and English literature, although biological subjects always proved highly attractive. Paul's boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire, from which he graduated in 1915. The family also maintained contacts with luminaries in the field of literature, in particular handling the financial affairs of Mark Twain, whose spotless white suits impressed the young lad when the famous author visited.Įnders first attended the Noah Webster public grammar school in Hartford and in 1912 entered St. An uncle, a retired physician, who often visited the house, however, acquainted his nephew with certain aspects of science and medicine.

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