“…e humanities have ever since been the focus of the school Amy Coney attended, and it would seem that the humanities have made a profound impact in her life. Indeed she went on to study literature and modern languages at Rhodes College, in Memphis (Tennessee), whose highest priorities are, according to its selfdescription, "a commitment to the liberal arts" and "intellectual engagement" [5]. is step in her life, other than reaffirming an inclination to the humanities, is rather extraordinary in retrospect for someone who thirty years later would become a Justice of the Supreme Court.…”