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Sargeant and Burr say these multiple connections between their firm and their alma mater are purely coincidental, but the two institutions' histories have long been intertwined. Like Sargeant, John Chipman Gray, a member of Harvard's Class of 1859 and one of the firm's founders, simultaneously handled Harvard's account at the firm and lectured at the Law School a century ago. Burr is the third in a string of lawyers which provided Ropes and Gray with virtually uninterrupted representation on the Corporation from 1905 to Burr's resignation, and Gray's co-founder John Codman Ropes, Class...
...Alma E. Taylor...
...apply, and then to pick the fortunate few. Most students' first contact with the Harvard admissions office occurs sometime during the summer preceding their senior year in high school, says! Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, one of several alumni who has come back to his alma mater to attract the creme de la creme of the high school to Harvard...
When informed recently that his alma mater had just concluded its most successful athletic year in its history, the Harvard alumnus was a bit taken aback. "My goodness," he said "We must be doing something wrong...
Taylor's book is a parade of names, from Walter Gropius to Franz Werfel, two men who not only shared the same fate but the same wife, Alma. The anecdotes are diverting, and the history is brisk and precise. But Taylor's work lacks the tragic dimension of Heilbut's book. The difference is evident in the titles. It is one thing to be a stranger and quite another to be an exile, forced from a country, a tradition and a language, to become, in Einstein's phrase, "a bird of passage for . . . life...