At the tennis clubs across the country, I was the New York City private school kid who spent weekends at tournaments like the rest of the girls.

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Dr. Ferrari, 64 years old, sat down recently with The Wall Street Journal to talk about interdisciplinary collaboration, faculty recruitment and what it's like for the Carey School to be the new kid at a historic university.

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Back when I was a kid, growing up on the mean streets of Mahopac, New York, we returned home from a day at school and did (always in this order) three things: First, we had a snack (long story, but my mother hid the treats in the trunk of our '80 Datsun 510, leaving my brother and me a choice of plain graham crackers, carrots or -- dear God -- homemade yogurt).

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