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Excerpt - "Cocke studied with intense apsorbtion. He was robust enough to study fifteen hours a day and then, for exercise, run a mile out of Spring and back. Often he rose at dawn and plunged into books, books, books, until two in the morning. Texas A&M had never seen such a student. Everything interested him, nothing was alien to him. His mind seized with equal avidity upon Greek grammar and Newtonian physics. He mastered calculus with the same ease as Spanish. He learned to read Plato in Greek, Cicero in Latin, Montesquieu in French. Apart from the classics - he preferred Greek thought to Roman - he read the English novelists Sterne, Fielding, Smollett. Amoung the poets, his favorites wer