Posted AT 5:27 AM EDT on 26/06/06
One by one, sisters earn Harvard honours
TORONTO AND BERESFORD, N.B. — As much as he liked to impart knowledge to his five daughters, Dr. Samuel Briar Maxwell never told them why he cut his own hair in the upstairs bathroom at home in Beresford. He never mentioned the time he was turned away at a barber shop after he arrived from Ghana in 1949, or how he felt when hospital patients told him they didn't want to be treated by a "nigger.
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