The Emperor's Club - A Teacher's Reflection on Ambition and Change
William Hundert:
I should have known Ellerby was conducting a cloak & dagger behind the scenes campaign for years to take the top spot. He is godfather to children of two different trustees, for crying out loud.
Elizabeth Hundert: [Hunderts toast]
Here is to Saint Benedict's, and your unexpected retirement. Now that that chapter is over in our lives, any future plans?
William Hundert:
I have always wanted to go into my father's line of work; to write. I have a good idea for a fictional book about the rise of the Roman Republic.
Elizabeth Hundert:
James Ellerby is on the phone.
James Ellerby:
The merger a few years back made him CEO of one of the foremost conglomerates in America.
William Hundert:
What does that have to do with this meeting?
James Ellerby:
The library is badly in need of repairs. Sedgewick Bell's company has offered to build a new multimillion dollar library, entirely paid by Sedgewick, to be named in honor of his late father. However, that is contingent on one condition: that he have a reunion of your 1972 fall class with you hosting a rematch of the Mr. Julius Caesar competition.
William Hundert:
Why now?
James Ellerby:
He claims he wants to regain his honor and display his knowledge after all this time. If this library is built it would be the largest donation in the history of the school.
William Hundert:
And a retired classics teacher with no fundraising experience is the linchpin in all this?
James Ellerby:
Amazing how the wheel turns, William.
James Ellerby: [narrating]
Bell Industries owns a 5-star resort on the Gold Coast. You and all your students will be put up there.
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The Emperor's Club - A Gift of a Rare Book
James Ellerby:
William!
William Hundert:
Ellerby! How are things in the Latin Quarter?
James Ellerby: [Hands Mr. Hundert a book]
Could not be better. I wanted to give you this for recommending me for the job. Now I know you probably already have one but this is a rare first edition. I found it in a marketplace in England.
Book:
Ancient Rome by Douglas Hundert
William Hundert:
So young when he wrote this...Well, thank you for your consideration.
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Quiz Show - Questioning Evidence and Perception in Quiz Show
Dick Goodwin: [Dick Goodwin questions Dan Enright about evidence of Twenty One being fixed]
Dan, I have it on the kinescope, it's clear as day. The man literally did a double-take.
Dan Enright: [laughing]
He did a double-take? And who told you this? Is this Herb again? Or is this the Greenwich Village Beatnik?
Dick Goodwin:
That's interesting, why is he a beatnik? Because he's not Charlie Van Doren?
Dan Enright:
Yeah, you're damn right he's not Charlie Van Doren. You know, you got these crackpots coming out of the woodwork, you're snooping around asking questions. You don't have a shred of concrete evidence.
Dick Goodwin:
Dan, let me tell you something. In this envelope are all the questions that James Snodgrass was asked on Twenty One. The odd thing about this envelope is that he appeared on the show January 13th, if you recall. Yet, he somehow mailed this to himself on January 11th via registered mail. I'd say that's pretty damn concrete, wouldn't you?
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Quiz Show - The Complexity of Money and Ambition
Dick Goodwin:
Don't treat me like I'm a member of your goddamn fan club. Are you telling me everybody got the answers but you?
Charles Van Doren:
You're so persistent, Dick. You know, I really envy you that.
Dick Goodwin:
Was it just the money, Charlie?
Charles Van Doren:
You'll forgive me, but anyone who thinks money is ever just money couldn't have much of it.
Dick Goodwin:
Charlie, you want to insult me, fine; but you can't envy me at the same time.
Charles Van Doren:
Jesus, Dick, if someone offered you all this money to be on some rigged quiz show, instant fame, the works, would you do it?
Dick Goodwin:
No. Course not.
Charles Van Doren:
No? Throw the whole thing in, the cover of Time, Dave Garroway, $50,000 a year to read poetry on television — would you do it?
Dick Goodwin:
No.
Charles Van Doren:
And I would?
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Quiz Show - Tension in a Game of Deception
Dick Goodwin:
I have Enright cold — and sir, that means I have you.
Robert Kintner:
Really?
Dick Goodwin:
Really.
Robert Kintner:
Then why are you the one that's sweating?
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Quiz Show - Examining Bias in Game Show Outcomes
Dick Goodwin: [laughs]
He told me this whole story about when a Jew is on the show, he always loses to a Gentile, and then the Gentile wins more money. I mean, who could dream up a scheme like that?
Dan Enright: [laughs]
A symptom of his Van Doren fixation!
Dick Goodwin:
The thing of it is, I looked it up: it's true.
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Quiz Show - The Burden of Secrets and Guilt
Dick Goodwin:
I remember five-six years ago my uncle Harold told my aunt about this affair he had. It was a sort of mildly upsetting event in my family... The affair was over, something like eight years. So I remember asking him, "Why did you tell her? You got away with it." And I'll never forget what he said. It was the getting away with it part that he couldn't live with.
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