Finding The Path I have discovered that my grandfather (born in 1896) was a Princeton classmate of F Scott Fitzgerald (also born in 1896). I should have known this. And in fact, he mentioned once when cautioning his grandchildren not to take on too many distractions in college that he’d told Scott Fitzgerald the very same thing. To wit: “drop something or drop out.” Fitzgerald decided ultimately on the latter. I should have put two and two together and arrived at the fact that Pa had attended college with this great American author. While I found several points of similarity, there were important differences between these two men. My grandfather took time from school to serve as a 2 nd Lieutenant in France during WWI, finishing his Princeton degree when he returned (thankfully) in 1918. Fitzgerald left Princeton around the same time, but largely because he was doing so poorly in his studies. Fitzgerald reportedly floundered a bit and then took a commission as a 2 nd Lieutena