Editing Archibald Cox (section)

====College====
At Harvard, Cox joined a [[Final Club|final club]], the [[Delphic Club]], called the "Gashouse" for its parties, gambling and liquor (during [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]]).{{sfn|Gormley|1997|pp=20–21}} He majored in history, government and economics and did slightly better than "gentlemanly Cs."<ref>{{harvnb|Hilbink|2000|p=1:5}}; {{harvnb|Gormley|1997|p=21}}.</ref>

It was during the second semester of his freshman year that his father died, at age 56.<ref name = "FathObit"/> For Cox's senior thesis he proposed analyzing the constitutional differences of the composition between the [[United States Senate|Senate]] and [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] through early American history. His advisor, [[Paul Herman Buck|Paul Buck]], told him he did not "have brains enough" for the project. Cox took up the challenge and completed ''Senatorial Saucer.''{{efn|The title of the paper referred to [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]]'s explanation to the French of the function of the Senate: just as pouring tea into a saucer cools it, so legislation coming from the House ("hot" because of the populist composition of that body) is cooled in the Senate (which is less populist because they are appointed by the states rather than elected by the people). One aspect of the research that would later relate to Cox's most famous episode was the impeachment and acquittal of Supreme Court Justice [[Samuel Chase]] in 1803. Chase was the first nationally known official to be impeached by the House.{{sfn|Gormley|1997|p=26}}}} As a result of the work Cox was able to graduate with honors in History.{{sfn|Hilbink|2000|pp=1:6–7}} Cox continued on to Harvard Law School in 1934.