In 1939, Scalia and his family moved to the Elmhurst section of Queens, New York, where he attended P.S. 13.[13][14] After completing eighth grade in public school,[15] he obtained an academic scholarship to Xavier High School, a Jesuit military school in Manhattan,[16] where he graduated first in the class of 1953 and served as valedictorian.[17] He later stated that he spent much of his time on schoolwork and admitted, "I was never cool".[18] While a youth, he was also active as a Boy Scout and was part of the Scouts' national honor society, the Order of the Arrow.[19]
Classmate and future New York State official William Stern remembered Scalia in his high school days: "This kid was a conservative when he was 17 years old. An archconservative Catholic. He could have been a member of the Curia. He was the top student in the class. He was brilliant, way above everybody else."[9][20]
In 1953, Scalia enrolled at Georgetown University, where he graduated valedictorian and summa cum laude in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts in history. While in college, he was a champion collegiate debater in Georgetown's Philodemic Society and a critically praised thespian.[21] He took his junior year abroad at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.[9] Scalia studied law at Harvard Law School, where he was a Notes Editor for the Harvard Law Review.[22] He graduated magna cum laude in 1960, becoming a Sheldon Fellow of Harvard University. The fellowship enabled him to travel in Europe during 1960 and 1961.[23]
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27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.