Sun, 02 Mar 2025 02:41:06 +0000

From an appropriately nice-sized Smithsonian feature on Robert Caro:

"At Princeton, Caro wrote his senior thesis on Hemingway. It was so long—235 pages—that after Caro submitted it, the school capped the size of future submissions at 25,000 words. It was informally known as “the Caro rule.”" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rifling-through-archives-legendary-historian-robert-caro-180985956/