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...karaoke. Even better than belting out the words to Gloria Gaynor’s karaoke classic “I Will Survive” was the visit the group took to the Shaolin Temple as guests of the municipal government. There, they got to attend tea with the abbot of the temple, who was flanked by an entourage of 27 bodyguards. “There were all sorts of things [at the temple] that seem taken straight from legend,” said David J. Henderson ’07. “There were several trees, probably...
...Samuel Abbot...
...book “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.” In 1925, when a Harvard alumnus expressed “utter disgust” about the amount of Jews on the Harvard campus to then-President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, Lowell replied that he “had foreseen the peril of having too large a number of an alien race and had tried to prevent it.” While Lowell’s overhaul of the admissions system discriminated against Jewish applicants at the time...
...comment prompted Abbot to question Gingrich on his logic, asking if America was any safer after pre-emptively attacking Iraq...
...Like all politicians, he didn’t answer the question,” Abbot said after the speech...