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Smith says he has long been interested in teaching math and science as well as Buddhism. When the Abbot of Rumtek, a high Sikkimese religious leader, spoke recently at Harvard, Smith decided to combine the interests. "I was really impressed by him, and I just said right then that I was going to go there...
...Boston community during the years of her husband's presidency, from 1943-60. She held the position of executive secretary to the Commission on Plasma Fractionation and Related Processes at the Medical School, was a member of the executive committee and of the board of trustees of Wheaton College, Abbot Academy, and the School of nursing of the Massachusetts General Hospital...
...course, was never out-matched in a verbal sparring match with Cosell, rolling off Howard's punches with a big smile, and returning the favor with some sneaky jabs of his own. Abbot and Costello they weren't, but entertaining they were...
Weiderman, a 118-lb. freshman whom coach Johnny Lee described as "the best kid I've had here in ten years," also registered a double victory, shutting out Dana Rasmussen of UMass, 11-0, and repeating the trick over B.U.'s Rich Abbot...
...walk around Emerson and look up carefully at the eaves you will see the inscription, "What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?" This inscription plaque was originally going to bear some sort of fruity paean to the excellence of man but President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, decided that he was going to teach the faculty a lesson in humility and he ordered that the less than exuberant quotation from Job be chiseled...